Presidential election runoffs scheduled for November 28
3,637 polling stations will open on the election day for voters around Georgia and 57 polling stations abroad. Photo: CEC
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The second round of Georgia’s presidential elections will be held on November 28, according to the decision of the Central Election Commission which was announced today.
Wednesday, November 28 has been declared a public holiday in Georgia.
Voters will have to decide between the independent candidate supported by the Georgian Dream ruling party, Salome Zourabichvili, and Grigol Vashadze, the candidate of ten opposition parties placed second in the first round of presidential elections.
3,637 polling stations will open on election day for voters around Georgia, as well as 57 polling stations abroad.
3,504,082 people are included on the voters list in Georgia and 13,795 are registered abroad - 3,518,877 voters in total.
Georgians living abroad will be able to vote until 12 am, since the second round of the presidential elections will be held on a weekday.
The Georgian Central Election Commission (CEC) has ended the counting process of votes for the 28 October presidential elections.The votes of all 3,705 polling stations have been counted and the results mean that a runoff will be held no later than 2 October between the top two candidates-Zurabishvili and Vashadze.
The Organisation for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) and its office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) have released their preliminary assessments about the 28 October presidential elections in Georgia.
The presidential candidate of ten opposition parties Grigol Vashadze, who came second in the presidential race based on the current data of the Central Election Commission, says that it is no time for euphoria as the second round of the elections is still ahead.
Independent presidential candidate supported by the Georgian Dream ruling party Salome Zurabishvili says she is ready for runoffs at a briefing today.
Head of the Service Development Agency of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia Soso Giorgadze says NGO allegations that fake ID documents are being printed to engineer the upcoming presidential elections are “absurd and invented.”
PM Bakhtadze says that the second round of the presidential elections will be held in accordance with the ‘highest standards’. Bakhtadze’s response followed the assessment of the former President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Rasa Jukneviciene.
The de facto Security Committee of the occupied region of South Ossetia is going to close the so-called border during the second round of Georgia's presidential elections.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has stated today that holding the elections in a free, fair and transparent environment has turned into a tradition under the Georgian Dream government since 2012.
The inauguration ceremony of the fifth president of Georgia will be held on 16 December based on the Georgian Constitution.
The Prime Minister of Georgia Mamuka Bakhtadze voted in the 2018 presidential elections, saying he voted in favour of Georgia’s “peaceful development and European choice”.
Today Georgian voters will elect the fifth president of Georgia in the second round of presidential elections. 3,703 polling stations are open to 3,528,658 voters in Georgia and abroad.
Deputy parliament speaker of Georgia Tamar Chugoshvili has appealed to the public to come out to polling stations and vote while ensuring that the elections will be held in a free, fair and transparent environment.
The ruling Georgian Dream party endorsed presidential candidate Salome Zurabishvili and the opposition candidate Grigol Vashadze have already cast their votes in the presidential election runoff.