Date set: 2017 Municipal Elections to be held on October 21
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The Municipal Elections 2017 will take place in Georgia on October 21.
President Giorgi Margvelashvili announced the exact election date at a press briefing this afternoon.
He said that he has already signed the document on setting the election date and it has been sent to the Government Administration for a countersign.
In June, Margvelashvili announced an approximate date for the election and said that it would be held by the end of the third week of October. President had to announce the exact date by late August.
The Central Election Commission has been given almost 40 million GEL to organise and hold the elections.
At these elections, self-governing cities will elect mayors as well as members and chairs of local councils.
Two non-parliamentary opposition parties – Democratic Movement and Free Georgia – have named a joint candidate for Tbilisi Mayor for the municipal elections this October.
The Alliance of Patriots, one of the three political parties that made it into the new Parliament of Georgia, has named one of its party leaders, Irma Inashvili, as its candidate for Tbilisi Mayor for the municipal elections this October.
The United National Movement (UNM) opposition, the party which ran Georgia in 2003-2012, named its top two candidates in Tbilisi for the upcoming local elections in the autumn.
Georgian Dream ruling team has named its candidate in Tbilisi for the upcoming local elections in the autumn.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili has started his regional tour within the election campaign for the Municipal Elections of 2017.
The former ruling United National Movement (UNM) party has united into an election bloc with two other opposition parties for the Municipal Elections, which will take place on October 21.
OSCE observers who have arrived in Georgia to monitor the country’s local elections next month stated they are interested how democratic the election process will be and not the outcomes of the race.
Georgia’s Minister of Internal Affairs Giorgi Mgebrishvili stated today that close cooperation between the Interior Ministry and the Central Election Commission (CEC) for the upcoming local elections is one of the key preconditions for a safe and transparent election environment.
Georgia is in a bustle over the upcoming election of its municipal government officials and some activists are using sarcasm to express their political stance
Georgia is getting ready for the municipal elections scheduled on October 21 when the state population elects 2,058 members of 64 city councils (Sakrebulo) and 64 municipal mayors. Georgia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has announced that 3,442,455 voters have been registered for the municipal elections.
Georgia’s Central Election Commission has announced that ballot papers for the October 21 municipal elections are being printed.
The United States Ambassador to Georgia Ian Kelly says that the pre-election environment in Georgia is positive. Kelly assessed the upcoming municipal election as he spoke to local media today. Georgia will have the elections this Saturday.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili says that this Saturday’s municipal election in Georgia will become yet another proof that, thanks to the democratic reforms undertaken in Georgia, holding a free and fair election has become a standard.
Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs is investigating an incident during which four people were shot and wounded near the election headquarters of the Georgian Dream political party in the village of Kizilajlo in southern Georgia’s Marneuli district late last night.
Six non-governmental organizations (NGOs) observing the October 21 municipal elections will present their election reports from the media centre opened today.
Three Georgian NGOs say in their pre-election report that the Georgian Dream ruling party has received the largest proportion of election donations ahead of the October 21 municipal elections.