الحلقة ٢٧ - الانتخابات النيابية لعام الـ٢٠٢٢: ما هي أهم التحديات التي تعترض إجراءها، وكيف يمكن تعزيز نزاهتها؟
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يناقش روني الأسعد، أمين عام الجمعية اللبنانية من أجل ديمقراطية الانتخابات، مع علي طه، الانتخابات النيابية لعام 2022 وما قد يعترض اجراءها من تحديات. كما يتناول أهم الدروس المستخلصة من انتخابات العام 2018 مسلطاً الضوء على الضمانات الرئيسية لنزاهة العملية الانتخابية وحسن سيرها.
روني الأسعد هو أمين عام الجمعية اللبنانية من أجل ديمقراطية الانتخابات. نسّق قضاء المتن الشمالي في مراقبة الانتخابات ومن بعدها منسقا للحملة المدنية للإصلاح الانتخابي لأربع سنوات مع “لادي". شغل في السابق منصب المدير التنفيذي في جمعية النجدة الشعبية اللبنانية وقبلها مسؤول المشاريع في منظمة هيفوس Hivos وInternational Alert الدوليتين. حائز على شهادة الماجستير في Applied Human Rights من جامعة يورك – York في بريطانيا.
وحائز على شهادة الليسانس في العلوم السياسية والادارية من كلية الحقوق والعلوم السياسية في الجامعة اللبنانية سنة 2009.
Rony Al Assaad, Secretary-General of the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections (LADE), discusses with Ali Taha the main challenges facing the upcoming 2022 parliamentary elections. He revisits some of the most important lessons drawn from the 2018 elections and talks about the measures that can be taken to safeguard the integrity of the electoral process.
Roni Al-Assaad is the Secretary-General of the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections (LADE). He was the coordinator of the Northern Matn District for monitoring the elections, and then coordinator of the Civil Campaign for Electoral Reform for four years with LADE. He previously held the position of executive director in the Lebanese People’s Relief Society, and before that, the project officer at Hivos and International Alert. He holds a master’s degree in Applied Human Rights from York University in the UK and a BA in Political and Administrative Sciences from the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the Lebanese University in 2009.
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