ABSTRACT
The European Parliament (EP) has been an election-observing institution in third countries since 1994. In fact, the EP shared its election observation activities with the EU Commission’s Election Observation Missions in non-European territories as well as with the parliamentary assemblies of the OSCE and the Council of Europe, and with the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). The chapter shows that EP cooperation with other institutions in the field of election observations may be best understood as delivering reciprocal legitimacy.
