Statements
September 11, 2015
Tetritskaro District Court abolished the decision of the Commission for Selection and Certification limiting ISFED’s authority to monitor competition process for municipal public service employment.
September 9, 2015
This Affects You Too – They Are Still Listening Campaign urges the law enforcement authorities to launch a probe based on Eka Mishveladze’s statement. On October 8, while being a guest of Rustavi 2 talk show Archevani, journalist Eka Mishveladze stated that she was under surveillance.
September 3, 2015
On August 31, 2015 the Georgian Dream coalition announced that no fundamental changes to the electoral system were being planned prior to the 2016 parliamentary elections. Instead, the government plans to introduce two changes. Firstly, a new 50% threshold will be introduced to the majoritarian electoral system. This will mean that if in the first round of voting a candidate does not receive 50% of the vote, a second round run-off will be triggered. Secondly, majoritarian electoral district boundaries will be adjusted, in accordance with the ruling of the Constitutional Court of Georgia and the Council of Europe’s 2002 Code of Good Practice.
September 2, 2015
International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) issues this statement in response to the proposal of the coalition Georgian Dream about reforming the existing election system. ISFED thinks that proposed reform fails to address a number of important problems posed by the existing system and to ensure creation of fair election environment.
August 31, 2015
On August 29, 2015, Imedi TV announced about suspension of its political talk shows. As a result, two popular weekly programs - Imedi’s Week and Reaction are now temporarily off the air.
August 19, 2015
ISFED issues this statement in response to selection of members of the High Election Commission of Adjara in July 2015. We believe that candidates were selected on the basis of their political affiliation. As a member of the Commission, ISFED had been involved in the work of the commission since the day of announcing an open competition.
August 10, 2015
Rustavi 2 is the highest-ranking TV channel in Georgia and is often critical of the authorities. It has been an important actor on the Georgian media market for 20 years now, with resources to affect public opinion.
July 27, 2015
The European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO) strongly condemns the intimidation of leaders of Russian election observer organization - Golos, member of ENEMO.
July 15, 2015
we call on the government to immediately arrange a meeting with non-governmental organizations (for instance, within the format of security and crises management council) to discuss Georgia’s contemporary security challenges with the participation of civil society representatives.
July 14, 2015
We call on the Russian Federation to adhere to its constitutional international commitments and to guarantee unhindered election observation of the upcoming local elections through independent citizens’ election observers.
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