Georgia creates special safety protocol for foreign observers in October elections

The parliamentary elections will be held in Georgia at the end of October. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge. 

Agenda.ge, 03 Aug 2020 - 18:29, Tbilisi,Georgia

Georgia has drafted a special safety protocol for foreign observers who will monitor the upcoming parliamentary elections in October, Georgian Parliament Speaker Archil Talakvadze stated earlier today. 

The protocol will allow observers to safely arrive in Georgia and carry out their mission,” Talakvadze said. 

Talakvadze stated that the observers will not be sent into quarantine and that they will have to register with a specially created online module. 

We have already begun meetings with large observation organisations. We are expecting many observers for the elections,” Talakvadze said. 

He said that the Central Election Commission is working with the Health Ministry of Georgia to produce a safety protocol for election day. 

The elections in the autumn will be held in a different manner from preceding elections, with 120 MPs elected per a party-list based electoral system and the remaining 30 per a majoritarian electoral system.