PM promises presidential run off will be of ‘highest standards’
“High standard elections has become the major goal for our political team since 2012 what has ensured Georgia’s faster pace of Euro-Atlantic integration,” PM Bakhtadze said.
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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 who told the Georgian service of Voice of America that Georgia has made not a step forward but a step back since the 2012 elections.
She said that despite Georgia being a regional leader in terms of democratic reforms, the pre-election period revealed several shortcomings including the inappropriate waste and use of administrative resources.
"The high standard elections has become the major goal for our political team since 2012 what has ensured Georgia’s faster pace of Euro-Atlantic integration,” PM Bakhtadze said.
In this regard, he has also mentioned his recent visit in Brussels where he has received ‘best messages about the country’s progress in terms of democratic transformation’.
“A special high level format has been launched only for Georgia which the country is using now to negotiate with the EU and this is an important message on our way of democratic development,” PM added.
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.
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.
Parliamentarians from the NATO nations have appealed for Alliance leaders on Monday to continue providing strong political and practical support to Georgia in the process of NATO integration and to advance the further political dimension of the country’s NATO membership process.