This five-day workshop was intended to introduce BRIDGE concepts of Electoral Systems: a) the main development principles of election system, b) the meaning of the alternative, plural/majority system, c) the proportional representatives, d) the system of proportional representatives by party lists, e) mixed and mixed-proportional systems, f) the process of voting and summarizing the results of election.

Also was discussed questions about the election on Europarliament, election systems of European countries and CIS, Australia, Great Britain, Brazil, Sudan, Lebanon, Lesotho, New Zealand, Japan and existing quotas for (women, national minorities, indigenous nationalities, small parties) in the electoral legislation of governments.

In conclusion all the participants took the certificates and book “Electoral systems” published under the BRIDGE project in Russian.