2020-10-13 A representative of UNM in Chokhatauri, Bacho Akhaladze reported to ISFED observer that their supporters and commission members who represented the UNM during the 2018 elections were subjected to psychological pressure. In village Buknari, the UNM representative, Iamze Kvachantiradze, who was a PEC member from the UNM, refused to cooperate with the party because she and her family have been subjected to pressure from the Georgian Dream and the Buknari School principal, Marina Gogishvili for years. ISFED representative interviewed Iamze Kvachantiradze, who confirmed the foregoing and said that for years, she and her family have been pressured. Marina Gogishvili was the chairperson of the Buknari PEC in 2018, while Iamze Kvachantiradze was a member of the same PEC from the UNM. Kvachantiradze worked as a practitioner at Buknari School and according to her, because of being a member of the UNM she often experienced psychological pressure at school, as well as at the election precinct. She refused to cooperate with the UNM because she is going to take teachers’ exams, to join the school as a seeker (entry-level teacher) and she does not want her or her family members to have any problems because of her membership of the UNM. According to her, Buknari School principal and a member of the PEC, Marina Gogishvili is an active supporter of the Georgian Dream.