Election runoff 2016:
Over 2.2m ballot papers printed for October 30 vote
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Georgia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has started printing ballot papers for the October 30 second round of Parliamentary Elections in Georgia.
Voting papers are being printed in five printing-houses in capital Tbilisi. The printing process is being monitored by CEC members and representatives of non-governmental organisations.
A total of 2,226,600 ballot papers will be printed for the election runoff.
Some ballot papers will be bilingual or trilingual and be printed in languages of Georgia’s ethnic minorities, including:
- Armenian-Georgian
- Azerbaijani-Georgian
- Armenian-Georgian-Azerbaijani.
Also on October 30 municipal by-elections to elect Sakrebulo (local council) members will be held in several municipalities across the country for which 4,200 ballot papers will be printed.
Also, extraordinary elections will be held to elect the Mayor of Akhaltsikhe in Georgia’s south. For this the CEC will prepare 14,000 ballot papers.
Furthermore, Gamgebeli (local governors) elections will be held in in several municipalities, for which 133,050 papers will be printed.
The election runoff will be held in 50 of Georgia’s 73 election districts.
Three former members of opposition Free Democrats party are urging their supporters to vote for the ruling Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia party majoritarian candidates on October 30 in the second round of Parliamentary Elections.
One of the leaders of opposition party United National Movement (UNM), Georgia’s ex-First Lady Sandra Roelofs is refusing to participate in the second round of the Parliamentary Elections after claiming the official election results were falsified.
Preliminary results of yesterday's repeat vote shows a second round is needed at all four polling stations as no candidate overcame the minimum 50 percent threshold.
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.
The second round of the Parliamentary Elections of Georgia takes place today. The election runoff will be held in 50 of Georgia’s 73 election districts. The voting process starts at 8am.