The Central Election Commission of Georgia will spend 4,466,910 GEL (about $1663653.59/€1473572.85) on parliamentary and mayoral by-elections that will be held on May 19, 2019.
2,664,104 GEL will be allocated to salaries of those employed in the election process.
724,192 GEL is for services and goods, while political parties will receive 770,400 GEL in funding.
1,078,614 GEL will be spent on other expenses.
The parliamentary elections will be held throughout 31 polling stations on May 19, 2019. Photo: imedinews.ge.
Voting for parliamentary by-elections will be held at 31 polling stations at Mtatsminda district, Tbilisi where a total of 43,868 voters are registered.
The parliamentary by-elections will be held because the former representative, Salome Zurabishvili, was elected as the fifth president of Georgia and the seat became vacant.
Five other Georgian towns (Zestaponi, Khulo, Tchiatura, Zugdidi and Marneuli) will host mayoral elections as their mayors resigned last year.
Former first lady and wife of the third President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili Sandra Roelofs also announced that she plans to run in the by elections for Zugdidi mayor, in western Georgia.
Mikheil Saakashvili and Sandra Roelofs. Photo: nrc.nl.
She ran for Zugdidi MP in 2016, but neither she nor the Georgian Dream ruling party candidate won in the first round of elections.
She refused to run in the runoff, claiming that the first round was fabricated.
Parliamentary elections were held in Georgia in October, 2016.