GYLA continues to monitor the course of election day at 36 Election districs in Tbilisi and regions. At 20:00 polling stations have been closed and vote counting has started. From 18:00 to 21:00 GYLA observers have detected the following violations:
2013-10-27 12:13 See moreAs for 6 p.m. GYLA continues to monitor the course of election day at 36 Election districs both, in Tbilisi and regions. First of all, we would like to state, that as already reported at previous press-conferences, elections are taking place in a calm environment with no significant violations observed so far. During the last several hours, following types of violations have been revealed by GYLA’s observers:
2013-10-27 10:16 See moreGYLA continues to monitor the course of election day at 36 Election districs in regions and Tbilisi. Polling process is taking place in a calm environment. As for 15:00, procedural violations are identified in several precincts. During the last several hours, GYLA’s observers revealed several types of violations and drafted complaints. According to our observations, violations were mainly conditioned by ignorance of Elections Code.
2013-10-27 09:47 See moreBy 9 a.m. polling process was taking place in a calm environment. The majority of election precincts observed by GYLA monitors were fully equipped with necessary voting equipment and ready for opening procedures. At several polling stations, mostly special precincts, GYLA monitors had problems with admission. Problems also occurred during casting of lots and control sheet filling out process. GYLA has detected following procedural violations:
2013-10-27 03:27 See moreGeorgian Young Lawyers' Association held presentation of its election observation mission on the October 27, 2013 Presidential Elections. Since the day of its establishment (1994), GYLA has been involved actively in monitoring of elections of the legislative and executive branches, as well as local governments and attempts to facilitate conduct of elections in peaceful and fair environment with observance of Georgian legislation in the election process.
2013-10-26 05:21 See moreShort Overview The Parliamentary Elections in 2012 resulted in the first transfer of power through elections in Georgia. This marked a significant progress in development of the country. Overall, the pre-election environment in 2013 merits a positive evaluation as it has been considerably calmer and there have been fewer violations compared with the pre-election environment in 2012.
2013-10-26 04:34 See moreOn October 17, 2013 the High Council of Adjara Autonomous Republic approved the candidates nominated by the faction “Georgian Dream”, “Georgian Dream Adjara” and “Georgian Dream Free Democrats” in the competition for electing members of the Board of Trustees of Adjara TV and radio. Members from the faction “United National Movement” and “National Movement Majoritarians” failed to receive sufficient votes. Accordingly, the competition will continue on the remained two vacant positions.
2013-10-24 10:58 See moreGeorgian Young Lawyers’ Association presented its monitoring report of pre-election period. The report covers the monitoring results in the period of July-September 2013. During the three months period GYLA conducted monitoring in Tbilisi and seven regions - Kakheti, Shida Kartli, Kvemo Kartli, Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Imereti, Adjara and Ozurgeti.
2013-10-24 08:08 See moreThe Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association presented the results of its monitoring of criminal cases in Tbilisi and Kutaisi City Courts on October 22, 2013. The court monitoring by GYLA is funded by USAID though the Judicial Independence and Legal Empowerment Project (JILEP) implemented by the East-West Management Institute.
2013-10-22 06:16 See moreOn October 21, 2013 GYLA held presentation of its next research “Procedures of Vehicles’ Procurement in Public Agencies”. The research proposes information about national and international practice of vehicles’ procurement in public agencies. The research reviews cases of vehicles’ procurement and free transfer or gifting in the period of January 1, 2011 - July 2013 individually by the administration of the President, the parliament, government chancellery, all ministries in Georgia and offices of the state ministers, as well as by local self-governing bodies of Tbilisi, Batumi, Kutaisi, Poti and Rustavi.
2013-10-21 06:44 See more