Former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, who was arrested in Tbilisi on October 1 ahead of the Georgian municipal race, has posted a letter for the head of the United National Movement opposition party Nika Melia, who was running for Tbilisi ...
The US Embassy to Georgia has shared preliminary findings of OSCE/ODIHR on Georgia’s October 2 municipal elections and said that the race was technically well-administered, but the election environment was marred by ‘widespread and consistent’ alleg...
The EU in Georgia representation has assessed the Georgian October 2 municipal elections and said that the race was ‘generally well administered’, but was characterised by ‘hardened polarisation’. The EU embassy says that contestants were able ...
The Lelo opposition party says that it will support opposition mayoral candidates in municipal election runoffs on October 30. The party said that the October 2 municipal elections were ‘far from fair and transparent,’ and that the ruling Georgian ...
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili says that the ‘destructive’ United National Movement (UNM) opposition party has been defeated by the Georgian Dream (GD) eight times in elections since 2012. He said that the opposition was unable to rece...
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili says that yesterday’s municipal elections in Georgia were held in a free, transparent and fair environment despite an utterly polarised pre-election environment. She said that by actively voting in the race, t...
The Georgian Central Election Commission says that election runoffs will take place for mayors in all big cities of Georgia – Tbilisi, Rustavi, Kutaisi, Batumi and Poti – as none of the candidates were able to secure 50+1 votes there. The oppositio...
OSCE/ODIHR, which was observing the Georgian October 2 municipal elections, has stated earlier today that the race was generally well-administered but held against the backdrop of a protracted political crisis and characterized by hardened polarizati...
The For Georgia opposition party, recently founded by ex-PM under the Georgian Dream (GD) leadership Giorgi Gakharia, has congratulated the GD on the ‘resurgence’ of the United National Movement (UNM) opposition party which was ‘ completely discredit...
Transparency International Georgia (TI Georgia) says in its summary of monitoring of yesterday’s municipal elections that the Georgian Dream (GD) government ‘still lacks the political will to hold elections in line with high-level democratic standard...
