Georgian Dream candidate wins parliamentary by-elections
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Georgian Dream candidate wins parliamentary by-electionsGeorgian Dream party candidate Givi Chichinadze won 57.88 percent of the votes in parliamentary by-elections held yesterday in Vano and Khoni election districts.
Chichinadze’s rival, the former mayor of Tbilisi Gigi Ugulava from the European Georgia party received 38.38 percent of votes.
By-elections in Vani and Khoni were held because former MP Grigol Liluashvili was appointed to the position of Deputy Head of State Security Service.
The Central Election Committee (CEC) preliminary results for the six candidates participating in by-elections are the following:
Giorgi Ugulava - 10 404 (38.38%)
Giorgi Liluashvili - 124 (0.46%)
Zurab Kartvelishvili - 59 (0.22%)
Mamuka Tuskadze - 399 (1.47%)
Givi Chichinadze - 15 684 (57.86%)
Vasil Kopaliani - 436 (1.61%)
"The polling process as well as vote counting procedures at election precincts were conducted in a peaceful election environment in line with the election legislation. All electoral stakeholders had the opportunity to observe the vote counting procedures”, CEC spokeswoman Ana Mikeladze announced at a news briefing last night.
Voter participation at the polling stations in Vani and Khoni reached 57.9 percent or 27,846 people while the total number of registered voters in these election districts is 48,123.
Six candidates were participating in the parliamentary by-elections. Five candidates are nominated by political unions and one by an initiative group.
Voting for the second round of municipal elections has finished in six municipalities of Georgia. The process of counting votes and compiling results is now underway. All the 317 polling stations closed at exactly 8pm this evening in those six districts where no candidate cleared the 50 percent threshold during the first vote on October 21.
Georgia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has released final preliminary turnout by 8pm and stated it reached 45.64 percent.
The Georgian Dream ruling party has won five election districts out of six in the municipal election run-off yesterday, Georgia’s Central Election Commission has announced its preliminary figures.
The Central Election Commission of Georgia has tested electronic machines for vote-counting during the Zugdidi by-elections yesterday.
39 million GEL ($16 million) has been allocated from the state budget for the upcoming presidential elections in Georgia which will be held in autumn.
Polls for parliamentary by-elections will open in the district of Mtatsminda, in Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi on May 19, the Central Election Commission (CEC) announced today. Voting will be held at 31 polling stations, where a total of 43,868 voters are registered.
Grigol Liluashvili, who has been nominated the new head of Georgia’s State Security Service (SSS), says that the main challenge for Georgia is the occupation of Georgian territories by Russia.Liluashvili, who is addressing parliament’s Defence and Security Committee, told MPs that Russia’s illegal activities at the occupation lines aim to “make influence not only on Georgia but also on the international community.”