President Margvelashvili assesses municipal elections
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The President of Georgia has addressed the nation and said the country has taken another major step forward after holding peaceful and democratic municipal elections yesterday.
President Giorgi Margvelashvili said the country had positively addressed one more serious challenge by making a step forward towards the country’s further development and success.
"After holding the parliamentary elections in 2012 and Presidential elections of 2013 successfully, through holding peaceful and democratic municipal elections [today], according to international standards we have finished a most important electoral circle and transformed the democratic process in an irreversible tradition," Margvelashvili said in a special statement last evening.
He said he was sure the people of Georgia would soon reap the benefits of the positive results of taking this step towards democracy.
President Margvelashvili congratulated Georgian people on successfully completing the municipal elections and wished unity, peace and wellbeing for the country.
The voting stage of the 2014 Georgian municipal elections has come to an end.
Latest data released by the Central Election Commission (CEC) stated 1,485,372 people, or 43.3 percent of eligible voters, voted for their favourite candidate in the self-government elections.
Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili and members of the Government and parliamentary majority, were at the Georgian Dream coalition headquarters when the exit polls were released this evening.
Today the President of Georgia released a decree which reads snap elections for several Governors and Mayors are scheduled on October 8, 2016 - the same day as Georgia’s Parliamentary Elections.