Elections 2016: Final results expected by October 27
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Georgia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has counted all votes cast in Saturday's Parliamentary Election.
As of 11am today, October 11, three parties received enough votes to gain seats in Parliament.
The current preliminary results for Georgia's Parliamentary Elections 2016 are:
- Georgian Dream – 48.668%
- United National Movement – 27.111%
- Alliance of Patriots – 5.006%
Although all votes have been counted, the CEC said these results were preliminary and not final. The reason for this is Precinct Election Commissions (PECs) are continuing to make official changes in their respective protocols (ballot box record cards) after finding out errors were made while election staff filled in official paperwork.
Meanwhile based on complaints submitted to CEC, the Commission has nullified the results of six polling stations mainly due to procedural mistakes made by PEC members.
Of these six stations, both party and majoritarian votes were void at five, while at the sixth station only party votes were deemed invalid.
Among the affected polling stations was #48 polling station in Kizil-Ajlo village in Marneuli, southern Georgia where a clash inspired by opposition supporters forced the polling station to close earlier than 8pm. This meant voters who appeared at the ballot box in the final hours of Election Day couldn’t vote.
The CEC has not yet finished discussing all complaints submitted by parties and observers. The counting of the election results cannot be finalised before this process is over.
The CEC must announce final election results by October 27, 2016.
Germany and Latvia are congratulating Georgia on "the successful first round of its Parliamentary Elections”.
It’s Monday but children in a small village in southern Georgia could not go to school today. The reason was very political even though children are not interested in politics at all.
Opposition party United National Movement (UNM) gained the second highest number of votes in Saturday’s Parliamentary Elections but might refuse to participate in a second round of voting.
UPDATED 17:10
The third party, the Alliance of Patriots, has overcome the 5% threshold for entering the ninth Parliament of Georgia, latest preliminary results show. The Alliance of Patriots party currently has 5.00323% of total votes.
People elected into Georgia’s Parliament have a responsibility to the Georgian public to act credibly and appropriately, believes Georgia’s President Giorgi Margvelashvili.
Opposition party United National Movement has decided not to boycott the second round of the October 8 Parliamentary Elections. The party will participate in the runoff and will also take up their seats in Parliament.
The Supreme Council of Adjara -the legislative body in Georgia's western Autonomous Republic of Adjara, will have a multi-party Parliament after four parties overcome the five percent threshold in Saturday’s elections.
A repeat vote of the Parliamentary Elections will take place in several districts in Georgia where votes were nullified due to incidences on Election Day.
A second round of October 8 Parliamentary Elections of Georgia will likely take place on October 30 and a repeat vote at four polling stations will likely be held on October 22.
One of the three political parties that made it into the new Parliament of Georgia, the Alliance of Patriots, has today named its party leader Irma Inashvili as its candidate for vacant post of Vice Speaker of Parliament.