Srđan Darmanović was elected president of the Council for Democratic Elections of the Venice Commission (VK), it was decided at the plenary session of the VK.
The Council for Democratic Elections is the leading body of the VC in the preparation of analyses, opinions and studies in the field of elections, electoral legislation, electoral rules and procedures, referendums and political parties.
One of the tasks of the Council is to ensure efficient cooperation of European bodies in the field of election observation, so the Council is the only body of the VC which, apart from representatives of the Commission, also includes representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe.
Representatives of the OSCE-ODIHR regularly participate in the work of the Council, and occasionally, in the capacity of observers, representatives of the European Commission, the European Parliament and International IDEA.
Darmanović will take over the presidency of the Council at the first subsequent session of that body.
The President of the Council is also a member of the Extended Bureau, which is the governing body of the Venice Commission.
Darmanović is a full professor in the field of comparative politics and political systems at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Montenegro.
He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Government of Montenegro (2016-2020), the Ambassador of Montenegro to the United States of America (2010-2016), one of the founders and the first dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences of the UCG (2006-2010) and the president of the Center for Democracy and Human rights - CEDEM (1998-2010).
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