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Valeri Gelashvili : We Will not Give Up Majoritaraian district in Khashuri”

October 4, 2012

Valeri Gelashvili majoritarian candidate of the Georgian Dream in Khasuri states that there is still complicated situation in Khashuri but he isn’t going to surrender.

According to him District Election Commission prolongs discussion of their 10 complaints and does not hold session.

“We are not going to give up results of the majoritarian elections in Khasuri, because I have won in my district for the third time. Commission members publicly state that riot police officers had forced them to sign faked protocols. DEC Chairman committed a crime when he registered them. We want to annul protocols from those polling stations where riot police broke in; we request to reflect real results,” said Gelashvili.

According to him he doesn’t want to disturb situation but he cannot control people because their requests are fair.

“If I stop people, they will step over me tomorrow. We must maintain the support which we gained in this district,” said Valeri Gelashvili.

He also states that CEC chairman Zurab Kuratishvili ordered DEC chairman not to leave house and hold session.

In addition to that, violations in the polling stations were reflected in the preliminary reports of the OSCE/ODHIR, OSCE Parliamentary assembly, PACE, the European Parliament and NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

In particular, according to their preliminary conclusions international observers managed to identify procedural problems.

“International observers noted that voters did not always mark their ballots in secret and observed group voting in 5 per cent of polling stations observed. Some inconsistency was also reported in the use and checking of ink, which is envisaged as a safeguard against multiple voting (7 per cent of polling stations observed). Voter identification procedures were generally followed. In 7.5 per cent of polling stations observed individuals were turned away as their names were not on the voter lists. While counting procedures were generally followed, international observers evaluated the counting process less positively than voting, with a negative assessment given in almost one sixth of polling stations observed. In one third of the 135 counts observed, the PECs had difficulties completing the results protocols, which led to procedural errors or omissions, including cases of pre-signing of protocols in one tenth polling stations observed. Results protocols were not always put on display, as required by law detracting from transparency. There were indications that ballot box stuffing had occurred earlier in some 7 instances around the country, including in the polling station in Khashuri, where the counting process was later disrupted. The CEC stated that the annulling of results, in a small number of polling stations due to reported violations, is under consideration.  The tabulation process was mostly transparent, with some overcrowding noted in DECs. International observers reported that PEC material was not properly sealed in eight cases and PEC protocol figures did not reconcile correctly in nine cases of 87 tabulations observed. In Tetritskaro,at least two PECs had their ballots and protocols escorted directly to the CEC as large crowds prevented their access to the DEC,” the conclusion reads.

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