Welcoming Remarks
I would like to welcome members of the Diplomatic community, Political parties, representatives of Civil Society, members of the press, ladies and gentlemen. Today we will focus our remarks on presenting CCMG’s 2016 Election Report, which details the findings of CCMG’s non-partisan election observation effort. We will have time for questions and all of CCMG’s reports and statements, including this statement, are available on our website and on the table.
Introduction
The Christian Churches Monitoring Group (CCMG) is an alliance of four faith based organisations formed to help promote credible elections through non-partisan citizen monitoring. The CCMG partner organisations are: Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ); Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ); Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflections (JCTR); and Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB), formerly the Zambia Episcopal Conference (ZEC), through Caritas Zambia. CCMG was founded in 2014 ahead of the January 20th, 2015 presidential by-election.
Find the entire CCMG Election Report Launch Statement here: http://caritaszambia.org/index.php/publications/general/file/99-the-ccmg-election-report-launch-statement
