ISFED calls on ruling party to cease discrediting campaign against the organisation
ISFED calls on the ruling Georgian Dream party to immediately cease pressure on the organisation and its observers and reminds the party members that ensuring a safe and constructive environment for observer organisations is the government’s responsibility. Photo: isfed.ge.
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The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) is concerned about the ruling Georgian Dream’s discrediting campaign against the organisation’s election monitors, reads an official statement of the ISFED.
The statement reads that on August 1, MP Irakli Beraia verbally insulted an election monitor of the organisation, who was observing the presentation of the ruling party’s mayoral candidate. Beraia called the observer a ‘liar’ and said she was representing a ‘fraudulent’ and 'United National Movement-abetted’ organisation.
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On July 29, at a meeting in Tbilisi with Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijani researchers, MP Givi Mikanadze said ISFED was an observer organisation with ‘low standards’, after finding out that an election monitor of the organisation was present at the event.
Intensified aggressive rhetoric and personal attacks on members of the organisation by high-ranking politicians are alarming. It hampers the work of the observer organisation and amounts to pressure on its observers and the organisation as a whole. It also comes in contradiction with democratic principles and values”, says ISFED.
ISFED calls on the ruling Georgian Dream party to immediately cease pressure on the organisation and its observers and reminds the party members that ensuring a safe and constructive environment for observer organisations is the government’s responsibility.
Read the full statement here.
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.
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The ruling Georgian Dream party has asked the International Society For Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) to present the list of the eight per cent of election districts where, per the NGO, the ballots cast outnumber the signatures of registered voters. ISFED admitted to a mistake in its data of the parallel vote count on the weekend, while the data has been used so far by opposition parties ‘as evidence’ that the ‘elections were fabricated’.
The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) NGO has released the results of parallel vote tabulation (PVT) which says that the ruling Georgian Dream party received 45.8% of the vote, while the United Opposition bloc (with the United National Movement) received 26.4% of the vote.
The ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party MP Irakli Kadagishvili has dismissed reports by the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) that the GD is forcing public school directors and teachers to campaign on their behalf in elections.
International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) has identified 20 pages on social media which were campaigning against the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party ahead of the October 2 municipal elections and 25 anti-opposition pages.