Democracy & Freedom Watch

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Georgia’s Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili says the reason he removed Defense Minister Irakli Alasania from his post ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili has relieved Defense Minister Irakli Alasania of his additional responsibilities as vice ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Defense Minister Irakli Alasania says the Georgian Dream coalition has had ‘an awkward discussion’ about selecting a ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- There were repeat elections at eleven precincts in three regions of Georgia on Sunday. According to the Central ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Eleven precincts in three districts in Georgia are holding repeat elections Sunday, because of grave irregularities which ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Several election districts in Georgia will have to vote again on October 14 because the results of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- The physical harassment and psychological pressure against the district election commissions is continuing. Activists from the Georgian Dream ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Four days after the election, the Central Election Commission (CEC) said the counting of votes had been ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- A video was publishedThursday showing a person wearing a mask breaking into one of the election precincts ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian Dream and others are protesting outside the election commission offices in nineteen one-past-the-post districts where the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- President Mikheil Saakashvili's party lost the election in the Autonomous Republic of Adjara. This is his favorite region ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The U.S. Secretary of State responded to Monday’s election in Georgia congratulating Georgians on their peaceful and ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The counting of votes is almost finished in Georgia and results show that the opposition leads with ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) summed up events on Election Day and reported about ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A group carrying out parallel vote counting has estimated that Georgian Dream won by 54.6 to 40.7 ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – OSCE says Georgia made an important step in consolidating the conduct of democratic elections, but there are ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The election result from several precincts in three districts of Georgia may be annulled, says the head ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Official results from the Central Election Commission at 06:20 am local time showed that the opposition Georgian ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Special police forces stormed several election precincts in Georgia, seized the ballot box and rewrote the protocol, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian Young Lawyer's Association discovered many violations during the election October 1. At a press conference 21:00 GYLA ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – According to Maestro TV's exit poll, the opposition Georgian Dream coalition is set to win also in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Another series of violations are regularly reported through local non-government organizations, media outlets and social networks from ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili concedes that his National Movement party has been defeated in the parliamentary election ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – All the exit polls published after voting ended show that the opposition has won the election in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The leader of Georgia's opposition coalition has not voted in Monday's parliamentary election. Bidzina Ivanishvili, leader of Georgian ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Local non-governmental organizations are reporting about different kinds of violations in Monday's election. Transparency International Georgia (TI) reports ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – In Georgia the most important election in recent history is underway. According to the Central Election Commission, there ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The kidnapping and killing of a 10 months old girl from an opposition activists' family has pushed ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – An unprecedented 61 000 local observers will follow tomorrow's parliamentary election, head of the Central Election Commission ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The leader of the largest opposition coalition says there will be set a new precedent in Georgia’s ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian patriarch on Sunday stated that he expects Monday’s election to be without fraud and that ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian Dream coalition which is challenging President Saakashvili's power in Monday's parliamentary election, mobilized over a ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The party currently in power in Georgia Friday organized a rally counting thousands at the national football ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A court in Georgia has ruled that the Central Election Commission's decision to establish tight regulations for ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has established many prohibitions on the use of photographic equipment at election ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian emigrants Monday returned to their homeland to protest the restriction of their right to vote. A number ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The largest opposition bloc in Georgia refuses to sign a code of conduct signed by other political ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Representatives of the Council of Europe's observer mission will arrive in Georgia next week in order to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The opposition Georgian Dream party accuses government of attempting to legally falsify the parliamentary election. One of the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Democracy groups demand that the date of the parliamentary is brought forward for Georgians living abroad. The election ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The seizing of the bank accounts of an opposition figure and his partner, a former AC Milan ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The largest opposition coalition in Georgia may be fined again, after the State Audit Office has said ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - People dressed in National Movement t-shirts are handing out gifts to people Telavi, a town in eastern ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian National Platform, a coalition of local non-governmental organizations (NGOs), has released a statement regarding the period ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's State Audit Service wants to fine a non-governmental organization (NGO) which supports the government by 5 ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Eleven party lists and coalitions have agreed to election campaign financing. Central Election Commission informs that Freedom to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – An American pro-democracy group says it's questionable whether there is rule of law in Georgia. The non-government organization ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A spokesperson for President Mikheil Saakahsvili says the president is thankful to a delegation from OSCE's Parliamentary ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A delegation from the OSCE's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) which is in Georgia to observe the election says ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Observers from the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) are now in place in Tbilisi ...

Two officials in the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) in a new statement express concern about how Georgia's authorities ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The largest opposition bloc in Georgia has decided to join the code of conduct for political parties. The ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The largest opposition bloc in Georgia was denied to register under the number seven on the ballot ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Political parties in Georgia are ready to agree with rules of conduct prepared by the campaign This ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Riccardo Migliori, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, will arrive in Georgia for the election period, together ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The inter-agency commission tasked with monitoring the election process calls on local governments not to place party ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The opposition Georgian Dream coalition continues to name its majoritarian. This time the candidates for the High ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A cameraman for an opposition affiliated media outlet was today beaten by a local employee of Lanchkhuti ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Bidzina Ivanishvili, the Georgian president’s main competitor, plans to win in the western Samegrelo region by having ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian Dream, the strongest competitor to the party of Presidential Mikheil Saakashvili, calls on foreign diplomats and ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – It is still unknown when international observers will start monitoring the election in Georgia. Parliamentary elections are scheduled ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - There are 3 621 256 voters in Georgia, according to Central Election Commission's (CEC) preliminary data, which ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – In Georgia, the government's main competitor, Georgian Dream, claims that they support fair and free elections and ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A United Nations envoy says the new party finance rules Georgia introduced in December are a violation ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The government in Georgia increases the state funding of political TV ads to create a more level ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The political partners of the Georgian tycoon turned opposition leader will have to return the money they ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - As a bundle of election related bills are up for final review in parliament, it became clear ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Tuesday Georgia's new election system should have been passed in parliament, but the package of bills was ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - As less than a year is left until Georgians will go to the polls again, the government ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The election reform has been postponed for two months. It should have ended by the end of ...

Georgia's ruling party has made it illegal for a political candidate to let him or herself be caught up in ...

Three rights groups refuse to take part in a new system meant to guarantee every Georgian the right to vote, ...

Two observers from the Council of Europe (CoE) have asked Georgia's ruling party to stop coming up with surprise changes ...

Work to improve the Georgian election environment has ended as a draft has been sent off to the Council of ...

Three non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are seriously concerned after the government's sudden changes to the draft for a new election law. Now ...

After reaching a hard-fought agreement with several opposition parties, the ruling party has introduced significant changes in the draft for ...

The United States ambassador at the time thought that two recordings which were televised by Saakashvili's government right before the ...