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ELECTIONS
2010-06-30
“You Are Dead!” – Retired People Victimized by Election Fabrications Cannot Get Their Pensions and “Lives” Back
People are not surprised with paradoxes in Georgia.
During every election dead people raise from the dead but apparently we
have already put up with it; however we could not imagine that things
happened vice versa too. Several retired people from Poti district could
not get their pensions because they were not on the list. When they
inquired the reasons the reply was astonishing – “you are dead and you
cannot get pension.”
2010-06-25
Companies Transferred Money to the National Movement on the Next Day of the Municipal Elections
Different organizations
allocated sums to the United National Movement on the next day of the
municipal elections. The United National Movement received and spent 14
113 411, 8 GEL for the municipal elections of May 30. It is 20 times
more than the fund spent by the Christian-Democrat Movement, which took
the second place in the election results and 100 times more than the
funding of the Alliance for Georgia for the election campaign.
2010-06-24
“Go Home!” on Political Grounds
Akhmeta district governor Koba
Maisuradze fired specialist of the district administration Tengiz
Mailashvili. The governor said Mailashvili was dismissed based on his
personal statement. Mailashvili claims he wrote resignation letter under
oppression. He said the district governor called him to his room and
threatened him to punish him and his family members unless he wrote
resignation letter.
2010-06-23
The Human Rights Center Published Mid-Term Report on Municipal Elections
The Human Rights Center
finished working on the mid-term report on municipal elections. With the
financial support of the Foundation “Open Society-Georgia” the Human
Rights Center monitored the elections in Samegrelo Zemo-Svaneti and
Kakheti regions on May 30.
2010-06-21
Police Regime and Nepotism in Kakheti
The new municipal boards in all eight districts of
Kakheti region held first sessions. They all elected the chairpersons,
their deputies and district governors. Only one application was
submitted to each municipal board for the position of the district
governor. Mostly the relatives of the Kakheti region deputy governor
Giorgi Sibashvili were appointed to the high positions in the districts.
Representatives of the opposition parties have not occupied any high
positions in the region.
2010-06-18
CEC Fined “Rustavi 2” and Imedi-TV
2010-06-16
There Is Still Noise in Noghaideli’s Party
2010-06-15
Zemo Lambalo – Repeated Municipal Elections with Zonder Brigades
On June 12, repeated municipal elections were held in the
polling station # 47 in the village of Zemo Lambalo in Sagarejo
district. According to the directives of the Central Election Commission
(CEC) the Sagarejo District Election Commission (DEC) annulled the
election results based on the video-recording of the Human Rights
Center. On May 30, the observers of the Center video-recorded a person
who tried to drop ballot papers in the ballot box; after that
chairperson of the precinct commission tore off the ballot papers.
2010-06-15
Government Used Rural Program for the Pre-Election Campaign
The Rural Program was launched in Baghdati, Vani and
Samtredia districts in Imereti region in February of 2010. All projects
were finished before the municipal elections. In comparison to the
previous year, the funds of the project were doubled. The speed of the
activities also increased. Local officials spent three months on the
launch and completion of all projects. Last year, the number of projects
and the funds were less and the activities continued till the end of
the year.
2010-06-11
Alliance Sues “Thieves of Votes” at the Prosecutor’s Office in Kutaisi
Former single mandate candidate of the Alliance for
Georgia Nato Katamadze appeals to the Kutaisi prosecutor’s office and
requests criminal investigation on the violations. Katamadze requests to
investigate the violation incidents observed during the municipal
elections of 2010 and to punish the offenders – so-called thieves of
votes.
2010-06-11
Georgia's Muddled Elections
Does President Saakashvili
really deserve international plaudits for his party’s decisive victory
in Georgia’s elections on 30 May 2010? What Jakub Parusinski saw
himself, and heard from fellow election monitors, suggests that
procedural violations and deliberate fraud were more widespread and
organised than first appeared
2010-06-11
Municipal Elections in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti Region Were Peaceful but Full of Violations
Attempts to vote without IDs, lack of election booths,
spoilt marking apparatus – this is short list of the violations which
were observed by the observers of the Human Rights Center in
Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region on May 30 during the municipal elections.
2010-06-11
Elections in the Suburb of Kobuleti – With Propaganda of the Ruling Party
I observed the municipal elections at the polling station
# 29 in Kobuleti election district # 81. I selected the polling station
for several reasons – it was located in the building of the village
administration; as for the election HQ of the National Movement, it was
opened in the house of the former village governor Davit Inaishvili.
Besides that, chairman of the Kobuleti municipal board Sulkhan Takidze
is registered as a voter at the precinct. The polling station was
situated in the suburb of the election district and the observing
organizations paid less attention to it.
2010-06-11
Alliance for Georgia Requests to Annul Precinct Election Results after Votes Were Counted
2010-06-10
“Nationalist” Judges in Protection of Fraud
Tbilisi Appeal Court decided on the arguments about the
results of the polling station in Variani village, Gori district in
favor of the election administration. More precisely, they did not
change the judgment of the judge of the Gori district court and former
district prosecutor Nikoloz Marsagishvili. The court was discussing the
suit of the observer of the Human Rights Center. In fact, within the
limited 4 days, the court demanded the observer to preserve all
procedures which are necessary for huge cases prolonged for many years.
Instead, they did not envisage the violations which were observed during
the counting of votes at the PS.
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