The Human Rights Center monitors the municipal elections within the project funded by the Open Society – Georgia Foundation. The Center has sent about 100 observers and several journalists to Samegrelo Zemo Svaneti and Kakheti regions. Besides that, the observers of the Center work in Adjara autonomous republic, in Gori, Zestaponi and Tbilisi.
Based on the experience during the previous elections, the observers were sent to the most problematic districts in Kakheti region. The villages populated by ethnic minorities are under particular attention; as it was expected facts of election rigging and blatant violations were observed in those villages.
The executive director of the Human Rights Center Ucha Nanuashvili reported that the situation is getting worse in the second half of the day. The observers of the Human Rights Center are not allowed to register violations; the commission members deny them to accept complaints and threaten to destroy them. Lately, the commission members started to threaten the observers with physical assault.
It is noteworthy, that the commission members from the opposition parties do not react on the violations. They do not support the complaints of the Human Rights Center’s observers at all.
According to Ucha Nanuashvili, their monitors have not noticed any independent observer – neither Georgian nor foreigner - in the polling stations of the villages of ethnic minorities.
Based on the experience during the previous elections, the observers were sent to the most problematic districts in Kakheti region. The villages populated by ethnic minorities are under particular attention; as it was expected facts of election rigging and blatant violations were observed in those villages.
The executive director of the Human Rights Center Ucha Nanuashvili reported that the situation is getting worse in the second half of the day. The observers of the Human Rights Center are not allowed to register violations; the commission members deny them to accept complaints and threaten to destroy them. Lately, the commission members started to threaten the observers with physical assault.
It is noteworthy, that the commission members from the opposition parties do not react on the violations. They do not support the complaints of the Human Rights Center’s observers at all.
According to Ucha Nanuashvili, their monitors have not noticed any independent observer – neither Georgian nor foreigner - in the polling stations of the villages of ethnic minorities.
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