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PUBLIC OFFICIALS TO PARTICIPATE IN ELECTION CAMPAIGNS

Date: 2012-08-05
District: Ozurgeti
Incident Category: Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-08-05 On August 5, Dvabzushi governor of Ozurgeti region was handing out the UNM’s campaign materials. The process of distributing such materials was attended by Temur Mokia, the head of National faction of Ozurgeti Council as well....

HIGH CENTRAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL'S INTERFERENCE IN THE MEETINGS OF THE OPPOSITION PARTY WITH THE VOTERS IN THE REGIONS – LAGODEKHI

Date: 2012-07-22
District: Lagodekhi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Hindering carrying a campaign, Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-07-22 Goga Khachidze (Minister of Environment Protection of Georgia) aggressively demanded that the representatives of Georgian Dream let him pass to meet the leader of Georgian Dream, because he is a government Minister....

ORDER FOR EMPLOYEES OF MINISTRIES TO COLLECT DATA OF SUPPORTERS OF NATIONAL MOVEMENT

Date: 2012-07-19
District: Tbilisi , Tbilisi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Other intimidation, Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-07-21 Ministry employees were ordered to collect data (name, address, ID number, telephone number) from 10 citizens who will vote for the National Movement in the elections. They are instructed to mark their voting preference in a manner that corresponds with their preferred political party e.g. 3 dots, a square etc. The process started about two weeks ago and all employees were ordered to collect the data....

THREATENING FROM GOVERNOR SHALVA KHORNAULI AGAINST ACTIVISTS OF FREE GEORGIA IN VILLAGE ARKHILOSKALO

Date: 2012-07-17
District: Dedoplistskaro , Arkhiloskalo
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening, Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-08-21 On July 17, 2012, Shalva Kornauli, a trustee of the village of Arkhiloskalo, prohibited activists of the party Free Georgia – Zhuzhuna Kenkadze and Natia Natadze from working to register supporters of the party in the village of Arkiloskalo. The party activists informed ISFED’s LTO that the village trustee prohibited them from working and moving around the territory of the village in various districts of the village....

LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES AGAINST POPULATION IN DIRBI

Date: 2012-07-13
District: Qareli , Dirbi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Physical attack, Hindering carrying a campaign, Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-07-13 On June 26, 2012, citizens of the village of Dirbi, Kareli District, who were meeting leaders of the coalition Georgian Dream, were opposed by representatives of municipal authorities and their family from Kareli, Agara, Ruisi, Kekhijvari and Aradeti villages. Trustee of Kareli territorial agency Akaki Dolishvili, employee of Gamgeoba Levan Mchedlidze, employee of military conscription agency Alika Kvelashvili, Governor of the village of Derbi Hamlet Davrashelidze and representative o...

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LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT MEMBER’S INTERFERENCE IN THE MEETINGS OF THE OPPOSITION PARTY WITH THE VOTERS IN THE REGIONS – KARALETI IDP SETTLEMENT

Date: 2012-07-12
District: Gori
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening, Physical attack, Hindering carrying a campaign, Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-07-18 Levan Maisuradze (Trustee of the settlement). Brothers, Gogita and Giga Gochashvili (representatives of Eredvi and Qurta municipalities). Gia Chulukhadze(foreman of the refugee settlement). Vano Midodashvili, Beso Kakhnisvili(representatives of local authority). All of the above mentioned people were directly involved in physical confrontation....

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GOVERNER’S PARTY ASSIGNMENTS IN GURJAANI

Date: 2012-07-11
District: Gurjaani
Incident Category: Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-07-18 The Governor and Vice-Governor of Kahketi, Giorgi Gviniashvili and Gogita Sabiashvili, have instructed the members of the Gurjaani sakrebulo and village trustees to mobilize the authoritative local inhabitants which, in their turn, had to mobilize at least 10 supporters of the ruling party. As a reward for this the authoritative persons were promised to get paid leave at their jobs....

LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT MEMBER’S INTERFERENCE IN THE MEETINGS WITH THE VOTERS OF THE OPPOSITION PARTY IN THE REGIONS – NIKOZI VILLAGE

Date: 2012-07-10
District: Gori
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening, Physical attack, Hindering carrying a campaign, Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-07-18 Ilia Mindiashvili (Trustee), his two sisters and cousin’s wife gathered with supporters to meet Georgian dream activists, including Kakha Kaladze and Nineli Chankvetadze. As a result, they interrupted the meeting and demanded opposition to leave the territory....

INTERFERENCE OF MEMBERS OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT IN THE MEETING OF THE COALITION GEORGIAN DREAM IN THE VILLAGE SHINDISI

Date: 2012-07-10
District: Gori , Shindisi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Physical attack, Hindering carrying a campaign, Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-07-18 Irma Papunashvili (a senior specialist of the local governance body), her son and friends shouted, interrupted the meeting and demanded the opposition leave the village....

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LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT MEMBER’S INTERFERENCE IN THE MEETINGS OF THE OPPOSITION PARTY WITH THE VOTERS IN THE REGIONS – VARIANI VILLAGE

Date: 2012-07-10
District: Gori
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening, Physical attack, Hindering carrying a campaign, Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-07-18 Iza Kokauri (employee of the City Council, chief specialist of the local governance body), Tako Kokauri (his son, a teacher and a member of the Election Commission) – They were shouting, and they demanded the opposition leave the village and prevented the meeting from being held....

PARTY ASSIGNMENTS TO PUBLIC OFFICIALS

Date: 2012-07-05
District: Tbilisi
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening, Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-07-18 According to information provided by employees of some governmental agencies (Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection, Revenue Service of the city of Rustavi), their superiors are instructing them to create lists of the ruling party’s supporters. Meetings took place in the abovementioned agencies where the direct superiors gave orders to their subordinates to make up a list of at least five ruling party supporters and threatened to create problems if they fail...

LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT MEMBER’S INTERFERENCE IN THE MEETINGS OF THE OPPOSITION PARTY WITH THE VOTERS IN THE REGIONS – MERETI VILLAGE

Date: 2012-06-26
District: Gori
Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening, Physical attack, Hindering carrying a campaign, Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-07-18 Levan Bidzinashvili (Specialist at the Gori Municipality) participated in a physical confrontation and demonstrated active behavior. Vasiko Tevdorashvili (trustee of the Mereti territorial authority) argued with Irakli Alasania. Kakha Lomidze (trustee and the head of emergency department at the Governor's Office) participated in physical confrontation. Eldar Elbakidze (employee of the emergency service) participated in a physical confrontation. Other workers of the emergency serv...

THREATENING AGAINST MEVLUD SHUSHANASHVILI FOR POLITICAL REASONS

Date: 2012-06-15
District: Tianeti , Tianeti
Incident Category: Intimidation, Other intimidation, Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-06-15 Mevlud Shushanashvili of Tianeti Municipality alleges that his social welfare was terminated for political reasons. On May 15, 2012, he attended a meeting held by the coalition Georgian Dream. According to the social worker, Mevlud Sushanashvili’s social welfare has been terminated temporarily until his scores are calculated....

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COLLECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION OF VOTERS IN AKHMETA

Date: 2012-06-15
District: Akhmeta , Akhmeta
Incident Category: Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-06-15 On May 13, 2012, during monitoring of the door-to-door checking of the voters’ list, ISFED’s LTO witnessed one of the respondents, Tsiuri Loladze, say that she was collecting ID information of voters. Ms. Loladze responded that she had been instructed by Valeri Dedabrishvili, leader of the UNM faction of Sakrebulo....

COLLECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION OF VOTERS IN OZURGETI

Date: 2012-06-15
District: Ozurgeti , Ozurgeti
Incident Category: Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-06-15 During the door-to-door checking of the voters’ list, citizens of several districts of the city of Ozurgeti informed ISFED’s long-term observer that they had been visited by employees of Gamgeoba asking whether they were going to support Mikheil Saakashvili in elections. Personal information was also collected from the voters....

COLLECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION OF VOTERS IN SIGHNAGHI

Date: 2012-05-21
District: Sighnaghi , Sighnaghi
Incident Category: Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-05-21 Starting from April 20, 2012, teachers of Sighnaghi public school have been collecting personal information of voters. It is noteworthy that their activities have nothing to do with the door-to-door campaign for rechecking accuracy of voters’ lists....

PRESIDENT WELCOMED BY PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND PUBLIC OFFICIALS

Date: 2012-05-01
District: Rustavi
Incident Category: Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-05-01 President Saakashvili presented a plan for reconstructing Rustavi Park. Local authorities arranged a meeting where Saakashvili was welcomed mostly by public servants, teachers and school children....

SPECIAL LISTS COMPOSED BY TEACHERS AND TERRITORIAL GOVERNORS

Date: 2012-04-03
District: Telavi
Incident Category: Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-04-03 School principles and kindergarten managers are assigned to list which political party supporters are their employees’ family members and relatives. Such instructions came from heads of educational resource centers and nursery school unions. Special lists are composed by the representatives of local government territorial bodies as well. They are instructed to register those socially vulnerable families who are suspected of supporting the opposition....

PRESIDENT WELCOMED MOSTLY BY PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND PUBLIC OFFICIALS

Date: 2012-03-12
District: Telavi
Incident Category: Misuse of administrative resources, Participation of public servants

2012-03-12 Local authorities arranged a meeting in Telavi where the president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili was welcomed mostly by public servants, teachers and school children....