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The Election Management Bodies (EMB) of 42 countries connected Friday (January 23, 2026) resolved to enactment unneurotic connected 5 cardinal issues, including purity of electoral rolls, behaviour of elections, and usage of technology.
As portion of the Delhi Declaration adopted connected the concluding time of the three-day International Conference connected Democracy and Election Management (IICDEM) 2026, the EMBs besides resolved to enactment unneurotic connected probe and publications, usage of technology, and grooming and capableness building.
The declaration was work retired by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India, Gyanesh Kumar, on with Election Commissioners (ECs) Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi.
The heads of 42 Election Management Bodies, experts from implicit 70 nationalist institutions and elder officers of the Election Commission and 36 Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) of States/UTs were contiguous astatine the closing session.
The participants besides resolved to reappraisal their advancement periodically and projected to conscionable from December 3-5, 2026 astatine the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM), New Delhi.
The EMBs besides decided to bring retired a co-curated Encyclopaedia of Democracies of the World, broad reports connected the 7 themes which are being led by International IDEA and 36 themes led by IIIDEM and co-develop integer platforms, akin to ECINet.
In his keynote address, CEC Mr. Kumar, said that the league has ignited conversations regarding exemplary planetary electoral standards.
The three-day conference, the archetypal and the largest of its kind, was attended by astir 1,000 persons including planetary delegates from 42 EMBs and Heads of Missions of 27 countries.
India has assumed the Chairship of the Council of Member States of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) for the twelvemonth 2026 which focuses connected the taxable “Democracy for an inclusive, peaceful, resilient and sustainable world”.
