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Left: Razhden Kuprashvili. Right: Eka Gigauri.

2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections

Transparency International Georgia declared ‘electoral subject’ by authorities

by Shota Kincha

•3 min read

The Georgian Anti-Corruption Bureau has classified Transparency International Georgia and its head as entities ‘with a declared electoral goal’, ordering them to submit financial declarations to the Bureau within five days. The decision on Tuesday also labelled Vote for Europe under the same classification. The group was created in July after the government passed the foreign agent law to mobilise Georgians to cast their votes on 26 October. They have been highly critical of the ruling party.

Elections

Georgian Justice Minister: election watchdogs ‘caught lying’ over voter fraud allegations

by OC Media

•4 min read

Georgia’s Justice Minister Tea Tsulukiani has accused three leading Georgian transparency groups of lying over accusations the government may be planning to rig 28 November’s presidential run-off election. ‘It is very unfortunate that three non-governmental organisations — to call everything by its name — were caught in a lie’, Tsulukiani told journalists on Thursday. Transparency International — Georgia, the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA), and the International Society for Fa

2018 Georgian Presidential Elections

Georgian presidential election to go to second round

by OC Media

•5 min read

Georgia’s presidential election will go to a second round run-off after no candidate won more than 50% of Sunday’s vote, according to preliminary results from the Election Administration. With over 99% of votes counted, Georgian Dream–endorsed candidate Salome Zurabishvili leads with 39% of votes with the UNM’s Grigol Vashadze in second with 38%. A runoff will take place between the two no later than 1 December. According to the Election Administration, turnout for Sunday’s vote was 46

Bidzina Ivanishvili

Georgian Dream continues ‘anti-NGO rhetoric’

by OC Media

•3 min read

On 26 October, former Georgian Prime Minister and the Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party Bidzina Ivanishvili again berated several leading local non-governmental organisations, in an interview with journalists. Ivanishvili reprimanded Eka Gigauri, the head of anti-corruption group Transparency International — Georgia for ‘crossing a line’. ‘Several NGOs […] baselessly accuse the government, and if the government responds to them, they portray it as political pressure. That’s what th