The first national election observers to receive credentials from El Salvador’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) were deployed around the country for Jan. 18 municipal and legislative voting, which they concluded was conducted without significant systemic irregularities.

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“The process appears to have yielded a result that accurately reflects the will of Bangladeshi voters,” said Constance Berry Newman, head of a 65-person delegation from the International Republican Institute, a Washington-based group that promotes democracy. The EU Election Observation Mission, the Commonwealth Observer Group and the U.S.-based National Democratic Institute also praised the election process.

In an op-ed for the Melbourne Age newspaper, Bob McMullan, the Australian Secretary for International Development Assistance, details his observation of the Dec. 29 parliamentary elections in Bangladesh as a member of NDI’s international observation delegation.

McMullan writes:

NDI’s Regional Director for Eurasia Laura Jewett addressed the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also called the Helsinki Commission, on Kyrgyzstan’s July 23 presidential election. Jewett outlined several areas in which the government of Kyrgyzstan could take steps to improve the electoral environment, which would in turn help rebuild citizen confidence in the process.