NEW DELHI: Chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar will on December 3 take up chairship of the Worldwide Institute for Democracy and Electoral Help (IIDEA) for the 12 months 2026 in Stockholm, reflecting a “world recognition of the Election Fee’s standing as one of many world’s most credible and revolutionary election administration our bodies (EMBs),” as per EC.IIDEA is an intergovernmental group created in February 1995, with India as a founding member, to assist sustainable democracy worldwide. It has, over the previous three many years, advanced right into a key world convenor for EMBs, constitutional specialists, political establishments and democratic practitioners from throughout continents. It presently contains 35 member international locations together with Australia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Mauritius, South Africa, Chile and Sweden, with the US and Japan appearing as observer states. Electoral processes and electoral analysis are amongst its focus areas. IIDEA by its council of member states yearly elects a chair and two vice-chairs. Its current chairship is held by Switzerland and can now move on to India.
As Chair, Kumar can be presiding over all council conferences by 2026. EC in a press release on Wednesday mentioned the CEC “will leverage the nation’s unmatched expertise of conducting the world’s largest elections to form IIDEA’s world agenda”. Sarcastically, the worldwide appreciation and IIDEA management for the CEC comes in opposition to the backdrop of fixed assaults confronted by him and EC from the opposition events right here, on the electoral roll well being and the particular intensive revision (SIR) train.“The collaboration (between EC and IIDEA) will strengthen knowledge-sharing, reinforce skilled networks amongst EMBs, and assist evidence-based world electoral reforms,” the ballot panel underlined on Wednesday.It added that “Kumar will leverage the nation’s unmatched expertise of conducting the world’s largest elections to form IIDEA’s world agenda”.In line with EC, India, with the world’s largest voters of 1 billion and well-documented, clear electoral processes, will share its greatest practices with EMBs from the world over, within the coming 12 months. Joint programmes, workshops, and analysis collaborations between ECI-run India Worldwide Institute of Democracy and Election Administration (IIIDEM) and IIDEA will additional improve world readiness to answer challenges comparable to disinformation, electoral violence, and erosion of voter belief, mentioned the fee.