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<p>Following the President of the National Transition Council’s call for a new electoral
timetable in his closing speech to the National Assembly on 31 August, elections will
not go ahead in the Central African Republic (CAR) in October 2015. CAR’s Electoral
Authority will now produce a new electoral timetable. Free, fair and inclusive elections
are crucial for the Central African Republic’s future stability and progress towards
reconciliation. The UK welcomes the Central African Republic’s Constitutional Court
ruling that all citizens of the Central African Republic, including internally displaced
people and refugees in neighbouring countries, have the right to vote in upcoming
elections and is pleased that electoral registration has now begun in neighbouring
countries. The UK is supportive of an EU Electoral Observation Mission to the Central
African Republic, subject to further discussions in Brussels later this year.</p>
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