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"Mr President, I want to begin by congratulating Ms Nedelcheva for her report and for her commitment to the problems in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This debate gives us an opportunity to reflect on an extremely interesting issue: the link between elections and democracy on African soil. Cases are, in fact, quite different. On the one hand, first of all, there are countries where the electoral process is in place. The most recent example is in Senegal, where, despite certain fears before the elections, everything went well and a certain democratic stability has been established. On the other hand, there are cases, such as recently in Mali, where the military take control and the electoral process is effectively blocked. Between these two extremes, there are more complicated cases, such as the DRC – and also Guinea – where electoral processes are organised and then, suddenly, postponed or there is post-election violence, a much more difficult and somehow unpredictable road to democracy. What can we do? I believe it is our responsibility, firstly, to support the monitoring of electoral processes with our missions and, secondly, as Ms Striffler has just said, we obviously need to link electoral support with support for development."@en1
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