Sunday, April 26, 2026

Negotiations between Saakashvili's and Ivanishvili's people

Giga Bokeria (left), representing President Mikheil Saakashvili, runs into Irakli Alasania (right), representing Bidzina Ivanishvili, exiting the elevator Friday. (Georgian Dream photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The winner of the aryparliament election, Georgian Dream, will from October 8 send representatives to each state body to start a  ‘peaceful transfer of government’ until a new government is formed.

This was one of the major decisions made at a meeting between

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Video shows armed attack on voting precinct

Info9 showed this footage of an armed man entering an election precinct in Khashuri on election night October 1. (Info9.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — A video was publishedThursday showing a person wearing a mask breaking into one of the election precincts in Khashuri, a small town in eastern Georgia.

On election day Monday, there were reports about special units breaking into several precincts

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Gamkrelidze leaves politics after election defeat

Davit Gamkrelidze leaves politics after his New Rightists party failed to reach the 5 percent threashold. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The leader of a decade old party has said he is leaving politics, sticking to a promise to leave if his party did not make it into parliament.

The New Rightists Party, which was established in 2001, gained only 0.43 percent of the votes in the parliamentary

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Wave of demonstrations against election fraud

Georgian Dream activists are contesting the apparent win of Saakashvili candidates in Zugdidi (pictured) and 18 other districts, claiming fraud. (IPN.)

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

According to the latest figures from the Central Election Commission, Georgian Dream

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Anger after newspaper names prison guards

Protesters burnt copies of newspaper Asaval-Dasaval after it had published names and addresses of prison employees. (DFWatch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — One of Georgia’s most popular newspapers on Wednesday revealed the identity of guards working in a controversial prison where serious abuse was revealed two weeks ago.

The list shows the names, address and date of birth of prison guards and employees working at

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