TBILISI, DFWatch – The opposition Georgian Dream coalition is ready to join a declaration asking for a competitive, fair and peaceful election.
Maia Panjikidze, spokesperson for the coalition, said Monday that the coalition supports a document published July 16
TBILISI, DFWatch – The government in Georgia will add points prepared by non-government organizations to the declaration of acting regulations for elections. But it is still unknown whether Georgian Dream will join this declaration or not.
Even though
A new portal in Georgia has been created to let people report violations during the election period.
The website is called the Multi-NGO Elections Portal, and aims at collecting information about alleged violations and incident throughout the election period.
TBILISI, DFWatch – Saakashvili’s main competitor Bidzina Ivanishvili has named 12 more majoritarian candidates to stand for election from regions outside of Tbilisi.
The Georgian Dream coalition has until now named 40 majoritarian candidates. The rest, including
TBILISI, DFWatch – Campaigners in Georgia welcome an initiative by the government to make political actors commit to not use or incite violence during the election campaign.
The campaign This Affects You Too thinks that such an agreement between political parties
TBILISI, DFWatch – One day after President Saakashvili met regional governors and told them to guarantee that the election process is exemplary, a fistfight broke out during an opposition event near a Russian checkpoint north of Gori.
The fistfight on Tuesday was
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia may restrict Russian observers from attending the parliamentary elections in October.
If a new law proposal is passed, any country that wants to send observers must first express its support for Georgia’s sovereignty.
Russia has recognized
TBILISI, DFWatch – A group of experts from the OSCE has arrived in Georgia to study the situation before the election.
Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Nino Kalandadze says the experts, who come from the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), will
TBILISI, DFWatch – A democracy campaign in Georgia is keeping up the pressure on the government to change the law to counteract pro-government bias in TV media ahead of the election in October.
The campaign This Affects You Too started in February as a reaction to
-The absence of a free media makes any kind of meaningful democracy impossible. Saakashvili’s givernment is using legalistic and legislative pyrotechnics to ensure an unfair political system, says Lincoln Mitchell, Associate at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute and Georgia-expert.