Kenya on the Brink: A View from the Chairman of the EU Election Observer Mission [New America Foundation]

Start: Mar 3 2008 - 12:00pm

End: Mar 3 2008 - 2:00pm

Event Description:

Kenya on the Brink
A View from the Chairman of the EU Election Observer Mission

Monday, March 3, 2008
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

The Willard InterContinental Hotel
Pierce Room
1401 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC

Kenya has drawn increasing scrutiny and absorbed U.S. policymakers' attention after the disputed results of the December election set off rounds of violence amongst political factions. During the runup to the elections, European Parliament member and Deputy Chairman of the German Liberal Democrats (FDP), Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, led an EU observer mission. As one of the first and leading voices to express doubts about the election process, he drew international attention to the electoral crisis. Graf Lambsdorff has argued that Kenya's electoral commission failed to establish the credibility of the vote-counting process due to unaddressed reported irregularities. Because of those irregularities, he has stated that some doubt remains about the accuracy of the official results.

Graf Lambsdorff has been called a "non-diplomatic diplomat" and a "radical free-market economist" by Germany's influential Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, "who is giving his opinion on various important hot-topics in European Politics comprising the question of Turkey's EU-membership, Germany's seat in the UN Security Council, the Services Directive or the European Chemical Directive (Reach)", where he is also the draftsman for the Liberal Group in the European Parliament.

Lunch will be served.

Featured Speaker
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff
Chairman, EU Election Observer Mission to Kenya
Member and Deputy Chairman, German Liberal Democrats (FDP), European Parliament

Moderators
Claus Gramckow
Representative, USA and Canada
Friedrich Naumann Foundation

Steven Clemons
Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
Publisher, www.TheWashingtonNote.com

This event is co-sponsored by the New America Foundation and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.

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