OSCE monitors will observe Georgia’s Parliamentary Elections following PM Kvirikashvili’s request
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Observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will monitor the upcoming 2016 Parliamentary Elections in Georgia in October.
This was announced when OSCE top official, Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili in Tbilisi this afternoon.
Kvirikashvili encouraged the OSCE official to send as many observers as possible and as soon as possible to ensure "full transparency” of the election process.
The Georgian leader pledged the Government would ensure the elections are "in full accordance with democratic election principles”.
The two officials also discussed Georgia’s European and Euro-Atlantic integration process and the situation in Georgia’s Russian-occupied territories.
Kvirikashvili drew special attention to the May 19 murder of a young Georgian man at the Administrative Boundary Line, separating breakaway Abkhazia region from the rest of Georgia and stressed the need of "proper reaction” to the incident.
At the meeting Zannier expressed his support for Georgia’s visa-free travel to the European Union (EU).
Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Giorgi Kvirikashvili is in Serbia taking part in the 22nd Ministerial Council of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
The world’s largest security-oriented inter-governmental organisation that specialises in conflict prevention, crisis management and political negotiations is creating an in-house team to regularly discuss issues related to Georgia.
This morning Justice Minister Thea Tsulukiani announced the Ministry had prepared legislative amendments to the Criminal Code of Georgia, where any kind of violence or threat of violence during a pre-election campaign or during the voting process would be punishable by law.
Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Kvirikashvili has signed the President’s decree about the upcoming Parliamentary Elections, meaning parties can officially begin pre-election campaigning from today.
Georgia’s Energy Minister Kakha Kaladze has been chosen to lead the Georgian Dream Democratic Georgia (GDDG) party through the pre-election period before the October 8, 2016 Parliamentary Elections.
Georgia's Central Election Commission (CEC) updated the electoral roll. Every citizen is now able to check their data on the website voters.cec.gov.ge.
In the beginning of July Georgia will transform into a political hub as 700 guests from 57 member states of the world’s largest security organisation come to Tbilisi to discuss regional and global security, migration and human rights issues.
Georgia’s deaf population and those living with other hearing ailments will be able to make an informed choice at ballot boxes in the upcoming, October 8 Parliamentary Elections.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) said out of the country’s 3,634 election precincts, 1,103 were accessible for people with disabilities.
Georgia's Minister of Defence Tinatin Khidasheli and Minister for Reconciliation and Civil Equality Paata Zakaraeishvili will step down from their posts to participate in the October 8 election representing the David Usupashvili-Republican Party, which will run separately from the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) coalition.
Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili says the resignation of Georgia's Minister of Defence and Minister for Reconciliation and Civil Equality was discussed and agreed by the current ruling Georgian Dream (GD) coalition member parties.
Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili says pre-election campaigning in Georgia for the October 8 Parliamentary Elections is in full swing and is being carried out in a calm environment by all political players.
Today the ruling Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia (GDDG) party presented its top 15 party members on its election list, which was composed of fresh, new faces who have a high level of domestic and foreign education, mainly in law and management.
Two cabinet ministers within the current Georgian Government are stepping down from their posts to participate in the October 8 Parliamentary Elections race.
"These Parliamentary Elections will be a test of our democracy and we are all dedicated to ensuring these elections are held in a way that meets the highest standards,” says Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvrikashvili.
Georgia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has released a special statement today outlining the rules about who can participate in the October 8 Parliamentary Election in Georgia, and say those who violate these rules will be punished.
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe has sent a record number of special monitors to observe Georgia’s October Parliamentary Elections. The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights launched its monitoring mission in Georgia today.
Knut Fleckenstein, Vice President of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats within the EP is in Tbilisi to meet high officials from Georgia’s ruling party Georgian Dream, and to assess the country’s pre-election environment.
25 parties and 6 blocs compete in October elections
Thirty-one election subjects including 25 political parties and six election blocs will compete in the Parliamentary Elections in Georgia on October 8.
“UNM plans to disrupt pre-election environment”
A member of the current ruling Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia (GDDG) party says opposition United National Movement (UNM) is planning to disrupt the peaceful pre-election environment by staging protests and provoking other parties.
The ruling Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia (GDDG) has today presented its final top 10 proportional (party) list ahead of the October 8 Parliamentary Elections.
“We will not tolerate any election violations" says PM
This evening Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili made a formal announcement noting he had tasked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to use "all legal measures” to prevent and avoid any election-related stir and tensions.
Head of Georgia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) Tamar Zhvania said a political bloc involving Topadze Industrials-Our Country would participate in the October 8 Parliamentary Elections, despite the CEC annulling the bloc’s election registration this week.
The European Union (EU) welcomed the October 8 Parliamentary Elections in Georgia, saying they held in a "generally peaceful and orderly way.”