Police called at 72nd polling station in Gldani

Police have been called at the 72nd polling station in Gldani, outskirts of Tbilisi, after a verbal dispute between the united opposition joint candidate for the head of Tbilisi City Assembly Elene Khoshtaria and the ruling Georgian Dream party activist Shako Kochashvili. 

 

Kochashvili has demanded from Khoshtaria to leave the site, while Khoshtaria stated that an unidentified individual was handing some papers to the women dressed in an outfit of the election commission members. 

 

Khoshtaria stated that she had no plans to complicate the situation, ‘because the opposition’s goal is the elections to be held in a peaceful environment.’ 

 

She stated earlier today that today’s municipal elections are  also a referendum and if the ruling party receives less than 43 percent of votes in the race, it will have to hold a repeat parliamentary elections, per the EU-Georgia agreement which the ruling party left back in July 2021. 

 

The ruling party says that repeat elections ‘are excluded’ even if they receive 0.1 % of votes.