International observers present election findings at 3pm
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International observers monitoring the second round of the 2016 Parliamentary Elections in Georgia will present their preliminary post-election statements at a news conference at 3pm this afternoon.

The election observer mission is a joint undertaking of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR), the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the European Parliament (EP).

• The press conference will be live streamed here: www.oscepa.org and here: www.osce.org/odihr

The statement will be delivered by Ignacio Sanchez Amor, Special Co-ordinator and leader of the short-term OSCE observer mission, followed by Ana Gomes, head of the EP delegation, Emanuelis Zingeris, head of the PACE delegation, and Ambassador Alexandre Keltchewsky, head of the OSCE/ODIHR election observation mission.

The International Election Observation Mission for the second round of Parliamentary Elections comprised of 156 observers from 27 countries, including 129 long-term and short-term observers deployed by the OSCE/ODIHR, 12 parliamentarians and staff from the EP, eight from the OSCE PA and seven from PACE.

• Click here to see the mission’s assessment of the October 8 vote.