Opposition leader: 1,400 members, 1,000 volunteers will be in Zugdidi on election day
Opposition leader Grigol Vashadze says that defeating of the current government should start from Zugdidi. Photo: Vashadze’s facebook page.
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Leader of the united opposition, uniting the United National Movement and allied parties, Grigol Vashadze says that 1,400 members of the opposition, 1,000 volunteers and up to 2,000 members of NGOs will be in Zugdidi, in western Georgia, during the May 19 by-elections.
Vashadze’s statement came after the warming of the Georgian Dream ruling party that the opposition has plans to stir unrest in Zugdidi on the election day with the help of 5,000 activists.
The people I mentioned will be present in Zugdidi to prevent the rigging of the elections,” Vashadze said.
The opposition protested against the approval of the list of the people who will vote from homes. Photo: IPN.
The Georgian Dream has already urged the diplomatic corps and observers to have Zugdidi in focus, where former first lady of Georgia Sandra Roelofs is running for mayor.
Members of the ruling party say that the opposition is aware of their failure and they will try to discredit the election process.
There was a verbal confrontation in Zugdidi district election commission earlier today, where the commission approved the list of people who will vote at home due to illness and other reasons.
The United National Movement said that the list also included healthy people and protested against its approval.
Georgia will hold municipal by-elections on May 19 to elect members of eight city councils (Sakrebulo) and five municipal mayors, the Central Election Commission (CEC) announced today. Polls will open for parliamentary by-elections in the district of Mtatsminda, in Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi on the same day as well.
The Georgian Dream ruling party has named a candidate for Tbilisi Mtatsminda district MP and mayors in five cities - Zugdidi, Marneuli, Zestaponi, Tchiatura and Khulo.
Former first lady and wife of the third President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili Sandra Roelofs has announced plans to run in the by elections of Zugdidi Mayor, in western Georgia.
The election office of the Georgian Dream ruling party in the Zugdidi region of western Georgia has released a video to show how the activists of the United National Movement (UNM) attacked an ordinary family in Zugdidi as they refused to host the opposition mayoral candidate, former first lady Sandra Roelofs.
Georgian Interior Minister Giorgi Gakharia, who has cast his ballot at Mtatsminda polling station No. 5 in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, said law enforcers will ensure that today’s by-elections are held in a democratic and free environment.
Georgia is going to the polls today to elect a member of parliament, five mayors and members of eight city councils (Sakrebulo) across the country. Polls opened at 8 a.m. this morning for 402,091 eligible voters at 410 polling stations.