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July 21, 2010

MGERB participated in training for campaign skills for center-right parties from Southeastern Europe


21/07/10

In the period between the 16th of July 2010 and the 20th of July 2010 the International Republican Institute (IRI) organised training under the title: “Campaign skills”, which was participated by members of center-right parties from Southeaster Europe – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Rumania and Serbia, the training took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina. MGERB was represented by Natalie Hadad from MGERB Sofia.

The training was held in three panels: “Development of messages and political communication”, “Strategic research in political campaigns” and “Organisation of a political campaign”. Presenting a great interest for the participants and being helpful were the many practical uses of the learned material in the form of practical games.

Lecturers of the first panel were Anna Matuskova and Barbara Pertova from the Czech Republic. During it the methods of communication, the development of messages and planning were shown. In the end there was a practical exercise of the lection part, through playing out an interview from a journalist to a candidate in an election campaign, which was videoed on camera.

The second panel was led by Herman de Vrais from Holland and Jan Erik Surotchek from the USA. It was dedicated to the sociological reports in their political aspect and building a strategy, based on them. In the end of the seminar there was a fulfilling lection on the political parties in the USA and the elections during 2010 there.

Lecturer of the third and last panel was Michael Sieben from Germany. There was a big training for that how a political campaign is organised. Accompanied with many practical attachments it gave knowledge to the participants how is a strategy for a political campaign build and executed, how to make contact with the voters and how to find volunteers for the election campaign.

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