TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian patriarch on Sunday stated that he expects Monday’s election to be without fraud and that people will vote for who they want.
Numerous polls have shown Patriarch Illia II to be the most trusted person in Georgia, scoring higher than
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian Dream coalition which is challenging President Saakashvili’s power in Monday’s parliamentary election, mobilized over a hundred thousand supporters in the center of Tbilisi Saturday.
The coalition also held a rally in the country’s
TBILISI, DFWatch – The party currently in power in Georgia Friday organized a rally counting thousands at the national football stadium in Tbilisi.
Majoritarian candidates and other members of the United National Movement party, as well as government officials, held
TBILISI, DFWatch – A court in Georgia has ruled that the Central Election Commission’s decision to establish tight regulations for media on Election Day are legal. The rules in practice make it impossible to take photos and videos at election precincts.
Under the current
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has established many prohibitions on the use of photographic equipment at election precincts, which in fact restricts and makes it impossible to take photos on Election Day.
Use of photos may document
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian emigrants Monday returned to their homeland to protest the restriction of their right to vote.
A number of Georgian emigrants today arrived in Batumi, a port city on the Black Sea coast, and held a protest rally in front of a public
TBILISI, DFWatch – The largest opposition bloc in Georgia refuses to sign a code of conduct signed by other political parties, because signing it would force it to recognize the election results if the international community does so.
Friday Georgian media reported that
TBILISI, DFWatch – Representatives of the Council of Europe’s observer mission will arrive in Georgia next week in order to get familiar with the situation before the upcoming parliamentary elections on October 1.
Nino Kalandadze, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, said
TBILISI, DFWatch – The opposition Georgian Dream party accuses government of attempting to legally falsify the parliamentary election.
One of the coalition’s lawyers Zakaria Kutsnashvili said Thursday that the amended election code regulates the issue of voters
TBILISI, DFWatch – Democracy groups demand that the date of the parliamentary is brought forward for Georgians living abroad.
The election is scheduled for October 1, but the groups it brought forward to September 29 or 30.
The groups say in an application to the Central Election