Kyrgyzstan's Oct. 10 parliamentary elections were conducted in a democratic, transparent and peaceful manner, according to the findings of the country's leading domestic election monitoring organization, the Coalition for Democracy and Civil Society, as well as the international monitoring group the European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO). ENEMO is a network of nonpartisan election monitoring groups from the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Noting heightened interest and determination among Nigerians to overcome the nation's history of flawed elections, a pre-election assessment mission conducted by NDI also identified a number of hurdles that could undermine a successful process surrounding next year's state and national polls.