10 January 2024 | Taipei, Taiwan
Mardi Seng, chairperson of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD) and a former senator from Cambodia, officially opened CALD’s joint Taiwan election mission with Liberal International (LI) with these words during the welcome dinner on 10 January 2024. “Taiwan has become a model for us who also aspire a democratic, secured and prosperous future for our own people”, he added.
“Coming to Taiwan is like coming home” – CALD ChairpersonCALD and LI conduct joint election mission; celebrate DPP victory “For
14 February 2024 | Jakarta, Indonesia
With delegates from Cambodia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF) of Germany, the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD) went to Jakarta to observe the polls. Prior to election day, the delegates met with representatives from political party, civil society and the academe to contextualize and understand better the key issues and problems in this year’s elections.
With over 204 million voters, 820,000 voting precincts and 258,000 candidates, Indonesia’s recently concluded elections were considered the biggest single-day electoral exercise in the world. Last 14 February, the world’s
11- 15 May 2023 | Bangkok, Thailand
A delegation from the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD), a regional network of political parties in Asia, was in Bangkok on 11-15 May to observe the elections – the first time that the network organized an election observation mission in Thailand. With delegates from Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia and Indonesia, the mission aimed primarily to understand the key actors, issues and problems in the Thai elections, and to learn from the country’s experience in administering the electoral process.
It was described as “generation-defining” election. In a number of ways, it was. The recently concluded Thailand general election saw
17 – 19 July 2023 | Dili, Timor Leste
Held in the capital of Dili, the mission aimed to learn about Timor-Leste’s democratic development and current political issues, and facilitate knowledge exchange among key political leaders. Moreover, the mission also sought to understand the ideology, platform, and advocacy of political parties in the country and explore the possibility of inviting them to be members of CALD.
“East Timor is a vibrant country, a hopeful nation that is considered the most democratic in Southeast Asia,” said CALD
8 – 12 January 2020 | Taipei and Hualien, Taiwan
The Election Mission was organized to show support to our member party, the Democratic Progressive Party who contested in the presidential and parliamentary elections.
“One country, two systems” has been at the center of controversy in the months-long Hong Kong protests. In the recent
12 – 14 January 2020 | Hong Kong
The Executive Mission was organized in order to better understand the political crisis that has been gripping the territory in the past months. It was also an opportunity for the participants to discuss with Hong Kong counterparts the implications of the Taiwan elections.
“One country, two systems” has been at the center of controversy in the months-long Hong Kong protests. In the recent
14 – 18 April 2019 | Jakarta, Indonesia
The Election Mission was organized to show support to two of CALD’s member parties, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) and the Nation Awakening Party (PKB).
It was touted as the world’s biggest single-day elections with 192.8 million registered voters and 809,500 polling stations scattered across
