GD Executive Secretary Kobakhidze: at least 12 districts looking at runoff elections
The Georgian Dream secretary claimed his party had won in "all cities and districts" in the vote. Photo via Irakli Kobakhidze social media page on Facebook.
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Georgian Dream Executive Secretary Irakli Kobakhidze has told local media at least a dozen election districts across the country are expected to go into runoff after the Saturday voting of parliamentary elections.
Kobakhidze made comments during a media briefing at the Georgian Dream party headquarters the night following the October 31 voting, telling reporters he expected a second stage of elections in at least 12 districts across the country.
The party secretary claimed the ruling party had won in "absolutely all cities and districts" and received 51 percent of votes based on over 1,600 summary protocol papers at his disposal.
Kobakhidze also told the media his party was winning outright in over half of the single-seat majoritarian districts, adding most of the closely contested districts looking at prospects of runoff were concentrated in Tbilisi.
The Central Election Commission of Georgia, the election body in the country, is in the process of counting votes cast by eligible citizens in the parliamentary elections of October 31.
Opposition Mtavari Arkhi TV Director NIka Gvaramia said after the publication of its IPSOS exit poll results that the ruling Georgian Dream party is losing in the parliamentary elections, this is why the Central Election Commission (CEC) is not publishing the initial results of the voting.
Mtavari Arkhi TV has released separate results of its exit polls carried out by IPSOS. It says in all constituencies except from Gldani, predicting the runoff between the ruling Georgian Dream party and opposition candidates in the majoritarian part of the elections.
Election commissions across Georgia have received 289 complaints about polling violations, the Central Election Commission said following the closure of stations, with most of the formal objections relating to "procedural" issues.
The Georgian Central Election Commission (CEC) has counted votes in 3,007 election districts of the total 3,847. According to the preliminary data nine parties will enter the parliament after overcoming the 1% election threshold. According to the preliminary results, Georgian Dream candidates are winning the majoritarian race in the first round of elections in 16 of 30 majoritarian constituencies, while a second round of elections is expected to take place in 14 constituencies, including in all eight constituencies in Tbilisi.
Votes from 47 of 57 polling stations abroad have been counted, and preliminary data show that the opposition United National Movement received 44.89 per cent of the vote, with the ruling Georgian Dream party receiving 29.15%, says the Central Election Commission (CEC) which has already counted 90.56 per cent of the votes following yesterday’s parliamentary elections.
The leader of opposition United National Movement (UNM) Nika Melia has called on the public to gather in front of the parliament building at the central Rustaveli Avenue at 4 p.m. on November 1.