Voter turnout close to 31% by 15 p.m.
The highest activity of voters (47.1%) has been seen in Ambrolauri, Racha while voters in Marneuli have been the most passive (23,6%). Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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The Central Election Commission has reported that 30.98% of total voters have voted for their favourite presidential candidate so far which amounts to 1,085,730 people.
"If compared to the same period of the day during the 2013 presidential elections, the activity rate for that time was 32,1%,” CEC speaker, Ana Mikeladze said at the briefing.
The highest activity of voters (47.1%) has been seen in Ambrolauri, Racha while voters in Marneuli have been the most passive (23,6%) during election day.
Police have detained a representative of the Georgian Dream ruling party and a member of the united opposition [supporting presidential candidate Grigol Vashadze] in the village of Imiri of Marneuli region in eastern Georgia as the individuals were verbally and physically fighting with one another at the polling station.
Organisations observing the presidential elections have presented a list of violations that have been reported so far at polling stations.
Two opposition parties in Georgia, the United National Movement (UNM) and European Georgia have made claims of election fabrication despite the fact that domestic and international observers say that the elections are taking place in a largely peaceful environment.
38.16% of total voters or 1,337,284 people have cast their votes in the presidential elections. The polls will close at 20 p.m. tonight.
Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Natia Mezvrishvili has held a briefing where she reported on the election process and incidents in or near polling stations.
The Georgian Dream ruling party, the European Georgia opposition party and Rustavi 2 private broadcaster have released the results of exit polls they have conducted. The exit poll results were announced as soon as all polling stations in Georgia were closed at 8 pm.
Chairman of the Political Council of the Georgian Dream ruling party Bidzina Ivanishvili says that the United National Movement opposition will try to stir election-related confrontations.
3,689 of a total of 3,705 polling stations have been counted: the ruling Georgian Dream party supported independent candidate Salome Zurabishvili received 38.6 per cent of the vote and the presidential candidate of ten opposition parties, Grigol Vashadze, received 37.7 per cent.
87-year-old Data Vanishvili, whose yard is divided in two by Russian-erected illegal barbed wire fences, crossed the occupation line early in the morning to cast his vote in the presidential elections.