Dutch, British and US Ambassadors on joint election observation mission

International observers monitoring the 2014 municipal elections are "extremely impressed by the professionalism and high technology” that is being applied at each polling station.

Dutch, British and United States Ambassadors in Tbilisi are on a joint election observation mission today, as the country takes part in the self-government elections. The Embassies also sent 88 monitoring teams around the country.

"We have observer teams all around Georgia as we have done in the past. And what we are hearing from our teams so far today is that around the country things are going quite normally,” US Ambassador Richard Norland said.

"We did hear about a couple of incidents last night that we were asking questions about. We know that emotions and passions are high in this election environment but this is a great opportunity for people to express their views at the polls in a peaceful way and we are very much looking forward to another good, normal election here in Georgia.”

The diplomats said they were "extremely impressed” by the professionalism and high technology that was applied at each precinct that they had seen.

The Central Election Commission (CEC) said 32 international and 59 local organisations were registered to monitor the 2014 municipal elections. Just over 40 media outlets accredited to report on the event, which will see Georgian’s elect 71 local self-government bodies - Sakrebulos (elected representative local councils) and 2,088 members of Sakrebulo, 12 city Mayors and 59 heads of local municipalities – Gamgebelis.