Friday, December 5, 2025

Former intelligence official detained for election fraud

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Ministry of Internal Affairs in Georgia Friday detained the former chairman of the Constitutional Security Department (known as Kudi) of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, who is accused with organizing election fraud.

Temur Pataridze is charged

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Georgian election was competitive, OSCE finds

OSCE, the Council of Europe and NATO held a common press conference Tuesday assessing the election. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – OSCE says Georgia made an important step in consolidating the conduct of democratic elections, but there are still some key issues left needing to address.

The organization has the largest contingent of election observers here, under its Office for

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Reports of violations

There are already reports of violations in the election in Georgia. (DFWatch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Local non-governmental organizations are reporting about different kinds of violations in Monday’s election.

Transparency International Georgia (TI) reports that one of the main problems is that there are not enough ballot-papers and envelopes in

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