Georgian Central Election Commission head resigns
Tamar Zhvania was elected as a head of Georgia’s Central Election Commission on September 11, 2013. Photo: CEC.
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The head of Georgia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) Tamar Zhvania has resigned earlier today ‘to help the smooth implementation’ of the April 19 EU-mediated agreement.
Zhvania, who has held the post for almost eight years, has stated in her Facebook post that the new head of the CEC should be elected according to recently adopted amendments in the country's Election Code ‘which are in line with the EU-mediated agreement.’
I have had more than two years to stay in the role. However, I think that the EU-mediated agreement offered a new reality in the country and the head of CEC should be elected according to new regulations,” Zhvania said.
She said that her resignation ‘is likely to boost the opportunity of a construction relationship between political forces that will benefit the election administration and the whole country.’
Zhvania said that under her leadership six general and several midterm elections have been held in the country and all of them were approved and praised by the international community.
She said that a number of steps have been taken for the institutional development of CEC and various innovative services have been introduced.
Zhvania said that all elections under her leadership have been conducted in the 'full line' with international standards. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
We have received seven international awards over the past eight years,” Zhvania said.
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She thanked the CEC employees for their work, local and international organisations for their ‘continued support.’
The Georgian opposition parties have accused Zhvania of fabricating the 2020 parliamentary elections along with the ruling Georgian Dream party.
The parties which took to the street after the elections stated that the figures provided by the ISFED NGO was one of the major pieces of evidence that the elections were fabricated.
However, later ISFED admitted a mistake in its parallel vote count data.
The EU-mediated agreement helped the Georgian political parties to complete the several-month political tension in the country which began after the 2020 elections.
The agreement proposes major electoral and judiciary reforms.
The head of the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) Elene Nizharadze has resigned following a mistake in ISFED’s parallel vote count data. ISFED admitted to the mistake in its data of the parallel vote count earlier in December, while the data has been used by opposition parties for several weeks as evidence that the ‘October 31 parliamentary elections were fabricated’ by the ruling Georgian Dream party and the Central Election Commission. ISFED board members said that Nizharadze’s resignation came after consultations and a broad consensus in the NGO.
The Georgian Central Election Commission (CEC) says that the data of the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) NGO which shows an imbalance between ballots cast and signatures of registered votes in eight per cent of election districts, is incorrect.
The Georgian Central Election Commission (CEC) has become the first country in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) to receive the international standard ISO 9001:2015 for election management.
Tamar Zhvania, who has chaired the Georgian Central Election Commission (CEC) since 2013, has become the first in the history of independent Georgia who was re-elected to the post.
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Ruling Georgian Dream party MP Shalva Papuashvili has said that NGOs planned to leave the Central Election Commission (CEC) unstaffed following reforms which saw the resignation of the body’s chair Tamar Zhvania in late June, and to later stack the CEC with its own representative.
The Georgian parliament has elected Giorgi Kalandarishvili as the new head of the Central Election Commission (CEC) in a fourth vote, following the resignation of the body’s former chair Tamar Zhvania in late June. Two other individuals, Gia Tsatsashvili and Maia Zaridze, were elected members of the commission.
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