Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili says that the ‘destructive’ United National Movement (UNM) opposition party has been defeated by the Georgian Dream (GD) eight times in elections since 2012. He said that the opposition was unable to rece...
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili says that yesterday’s municipal elections in Georgia were held in a free, transparent and fair environment despite an utterly polarised pre-election environment. She said that by actively voting in the race, t...
The Georgian Central Election Commission says that election runoffs will take place for mayors in all big cities of Georgia – Tbilisi, Rustavi, Kutaisi, Batumi and Poti – as none of the candidates were able to secure 50+1 votes there. The oppositio...
OSCE/ODIHR, which was observing the Georgian October 2 municipal elections, has stated earlier today that the race was generally well-administered but held against the backdrop of a protracted political crisis and characterized by hardened polarizati...
The For Georgia opposition party, recently founded by ex-PM under the Georgian Dream (GD) leadership Giorgi Gakharia, has congratulated the GD on the ‘resurgence’ of the United National Movement (UNM) opposition party which was ‘ completely discredit...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that he will use all measures under his power to ensure the release of Georgian former president Mikheil Saakashvili from the Georgian prison and return him back to Ukraine. Saakashvili, who current...
The Georgian Interior Ministry says that they have detained seven individuals, mostly for disobedience to police and hooliganism on the day of municipal elections yesterday, while investigation has been launched into 16 cases which contain signs of c...
Transparency International Georgia (TI Georgia) says in its summary of monitoring of yesterday’s municipal elections that the Georgian Dream (GD) government ‘still lacks the political will to hold elections in line with high-level democratic standard...
European Council co-chair on foreign relations, former prime and foreign minister of Sweden, Carl Bildt, has responded to the recent arrest of Georgia former president Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi and said that a fair court must decide whether char...
The Georgian Central Election Commission (CEC) has released preliminary results of yesterday’s municipal elections. Per the results, in which almost half of the voters were counted, the second round of elections will take place for mayors in all fi...
