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12/05/22 08:11 AM IST

Association of Asian Election Authorities (AAEA)

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  • India has been unanimously elected as the new Chair of the Association of Asian Election Authorities (AAEA) for 2022-2024 at the recently held meeting of the Executive board and General Assembly at Manila, Philippines.
Mission - to provide a non-partisan forum in the Asian region for sharing experiences and best practices among election authorities to discuss and act upon ways to promote open and transparent elections with the objective of supporting good governance and democracy.

About AAEA 
  • Association of Asian Election Authorities (AAEA) was established in 1998.  Currently 20 Asian EMBs are members of AAEA. 
  • ECI is a founder member EMB of the AAEA and also served on the Executive Board of the AAEA as the Vice Chair during 2011-13 and Chair during 2014-16. 
  • Commission on Elections, Manila was the current chair of AAEA.
  • The new member in the Executive Board now includes Russia, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Taiwan and Philippines.

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