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| Use of hate speech | |
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| Incidents submitted by citizens |
| Intimidation | |
| Vote buying | |
| Misuse of administrative resources | |
| Other | |
| Campaigning by unauthorized persons | |
| Use of hate speech | |
| Damaging campaign materials |
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| Incidents submitted by citizens |
Number of incidents and number of incident categories differ, as one incident report may include 2 or more incident categories
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Date: 2018-10-22 District: Vake , Vake Incident Category: Vote buying |
2018-10-22 On August 27, presidential candidate of political party Girchi – Zura Japaridze had a meeting with the youth, who had received summons to appear for conscription proceedings. It was a Q&A meeting attended by 35-40 people. The party gave clergyman’s certificate to those participants of the meeting who had expressed their desire to receive such certificate. Zurab Japaridze also represents a religious organization, Biblical Freedom. The organization provides clergyman’s certificates to ...
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Date: 2018-10-22 District: Kutaisi , Kutaisi Incident Category: Vote buying, Misuse of administrative resources |
2018-10-22 Under the budget amendments in Kutaisi Municipality, changes were made in funds allocated for implementation of infrastructural projects. In the sub-program of the infrastructural program, funds were allocated for implementation of rehabilitation of motor roads, as well as for improving the road safety and the sewer system. The budget of the municipality was increased by GEL 12,439 for implementing these works. For periodic rehabilitation and construction of roads infrastructure in Ku...
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Date: 2018-10-22 District: Kaspi , Kaspi Incident Category: Intimidation, Threatening |
2018-10-22 One of the founders of Kaspi organization of the Georgian Dream Ia Kvlividze is accusing executive secretary of the same organization Irakli Nonikashvili of making threats against her and her family. Ia Kvlividze believes that MP Dimitri Samkharadze and Mayor of Kaspi Manuchar Merebashvili are backing up Irakli Nonikashvili. Kvlividze believes that the phone call has to do with her comments on Dimitri Samkharadze’s Facebook page, expressing concern about the political situation in Ka...
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Date: 2018-09-30 District: Chkhorotsku , Chkhorotsku Incident Category: Misuse of administrative resources , Participation of public servants |
2018-09-30 On September 30, at 15:00, independent presidential candidate endorsed by the Georgian Dream, Salome Zourabishvili had a campaign meeting with voters at the House of Culture of Chkhorotsku Municipality. The meeting was attended by employees of the City Hall of Chkhorotsku Municipality and teachers, alongside local population....
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Date: 2018-09-28 District: Kutaisi , Kutaisi Incident Category: Damaging campaign materials |
2018-09-28 Leader of the UNM office in Kutaisi, Giga Shushania announced on September 28 that they put up campaign posters of Grigol Vashadze on September 27 only to find the following day that all of them had been torn off from the display stand. They visited the place; also present at the scene was representative of Kutaisi Mayor in the administrative unit of Mukhrani, Nana Megrelishvili, who was taking photos of the UNM activists, laughing at them and saying – “what did you think would happen...
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Date: 2018-09-27 District: Saburtalo , Saburtalo Incident Category: Other |
2018-09-27 On September 27, announcement was released on the official Facebook page of Girchi24, urging supporters to participate in betting about elections, in order to check credibility of the poll results published by Rustavi 2. These are the terms of betting: if Zura Japaridze gets less than 5% of votes in the election, those who bet money against him will win 100% on top of of their bet; if the candidate gets at least 5% of votes, the money will be kept by Girchi. According to the announcem...
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Date: 2018-09-27 District: Telavi , Telavi Incident Category: Damaging campaign materials |
2018-09-27 On September 27, UNM representative Giorgi Botkoveli announced on TV that campaign materials of their candidate Grigol Vashadze had been damaged on several occasions. In an interview with ISFED, UNM representative Levan Arjevanidze stated that the campaign materials were possibly damaged by a person with disability, who had been instructed to do so....
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Date: 2018-09-27 District: Saburtalo , Tbilisi Incident Category: Misuse of administrative resources |
2018-09-27 On September 27, at the Heroes Square, Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze laid a wreath on the memorial of heroes that died fighting for the territorial integrity of Georgia. Chair of Parliament Irakli Kobakhidze, other MPs and independent presidential candidate endorsed by the Georgian Dream – Salome Zourabishvili also participated in the wreath laying ceremony. The information and photos from the ceremony were published on the official Facebook page and official website of Tbilisi City Hal...
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Date: 2018-09-27 District: Akhalqalaqi , Akhalkalaki Incident Category: Intimidation, Physical attack |
2018-09-27 On September 27, it was reported that Akhalkalaki DEC Chair Hasmik Marangozian engaged in a physical confrontation with a member of the DEC, Teona Chalidze. The latter has been appointed as the DEC member by the United National Movement party. ISFED LTO contacted the DEC chair and deputy chair first, who categorically rejected the report of confrontation. Later the observer interviewed Teona Chalidze, who recalled details of the incident and stated that the DEC Chair insulted her ver...
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Date: 2018-09-26 District: Martvili , Martvili Incident Category: Other, First sessions of PECs and the process of election of PEC leaders |
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Date: 2018-09-26 District: Samgori , Samgori Incident Category: Other, First sessions of PECs and the process of election of PEC leaders |
2018-09-26 On September 26 and 27, ISFED observer attended meetings of the following PECs: #39, #40, #11, #12, #45, #50, #51, #58, #59. In the process of election of PEC leaders it was noticeable that PEC members knew in advance who to nominate and elect as the chair, the deputy chair and the secretary....
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Date: 2018-09-26 District: Chokhatauri , Chokhatauri Incident Category: Other |
2018-09-25 On September 25, head of the UNM office in Chokhatauri provided ISFED observer with a list of individuals that, according to him, were going to be elected as PEC leaders. On September 26 and 27, ISFED observer attended and monitored initial PEC meetings at 6 precincts of Chokhatauri District. The observer found that at five precincts individuals on the list provided by the UNM were elected as PEC leaders. At the first sessions of PECs there was a trend of commission members from the ...
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Date: 2018-09-26 District: Baghdati , Bagdati Incident Category: Other, First sessions of PECs and the process of election of PEC leaders |
2018-09-26 On September 26, first session was held at Baghdati DEC #10. The meeting was opened by the oldest member of the commission. During the meeting Nino Partaladze, who was subjected to disciplinary liability in 2017, was nominated and elected by PEC members as the chair of the commission. The PEC also elected the deputy chair and the secretary. Minutes and other documents were filled in with the help of DEC members. • The same day, at 14:00, first session was held at PEC #16 (Dimi villag...
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Date: 2018-09-25 District: Lanchkhuti , Lanchkhuti Incident Category: Other, Interference with election campaign |
2018-09-25 On September 25, at 15:10, the independent presidential candidate endorsed by the Georgian Dream, Salome Zourabishvili had a meeting with voters at the Center of Culture of Lanchkhuti. As she was exiting the building after the meeting, she was met by activists of the United National Movement, whistling and holding banners that said “Not a single vote for the traitor!” There were no physical clashes at the scene....
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Date: 2018-09-25 District: Ozurgeti , Ozurgeti Incident Category: Misuse of administrative resources , Participation of public servants |
2018-09-25 On September 25, at 12:00, at the House of Culture of Daba Ureki, independent presidential candidate endorsed by the Georgian Dream, Salome Zourabishvili had a campaign meeting with voters. The meeting was attended by the Governor of Guria, members of Ozurgeti Sakrebulo and civil servants. ISFED LTO reported that civil servants attending the meeting had taken one-day leave from work. Schoolteachers had also been mobilized for the meeting. In an interview with the observer, one of the ...
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Date: 2018-09-25 District: Martvili , Martvili Incident Category: Other |
2018-09-25 On September 25, at 12:53, ISFED LTO addressed Martvili DEC Secretary with an application requesting a schedule of initial meetings of PECs. She also verbally informed the secretary that she needed the schedule to attend PEC meetings. The secretary responded that they had not yet prepared the schedule and said that she would later receive the information by e-mail. Despite this promise, the secretary did not provide the requested information to the observer. The observer was able to o...
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Date: 2018-09-24 District: Kobuleti , Kobuleti Incident Category: Other, Interference with election campaign |
2018-09-24 On September 24, after finishing her meeting with voters at Kobuleti House of Culture the independent presidential candidate endorsed by the Georgian Dream, Salome Zourabishvili was met by leaders of the UNM campaign office in Kobuleti outside the Culture House, they were shouting and holding protest banners. To avoid a confrontation, law enforcement officers did not let the protesters near the candidate....
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Date: 2018-09-24 District: Batumi , Batumi Incident Category: Other, Interference with election campaign |
2018-09-24 On September 24, at Batumi Music School, independent presidential candidate endorsed by the Georgian Dream, Salome Zourabishvili held a meeting with voters. As the candidate was making a speech, a person from the audience, Aslan Vashakmadze yelled at her that Salome Zourabishvili should not become a president of Georgia. The person was subsequently expelled from the hall by Zourabishvili’s supporters. Later Aslan Vashakmadze informed reporters that he does not represent any party and ...
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Date: 2018-09-23 District: Keda , Keda Incident Category: Misuse of administrative resources , Participation of public servants |
2018-09-23 On September 23, a meeting held within the election campaign of independent candidate endorsed by the Georgian Dream, Salome Zourabishvili was attended mostly by civil servants, alongside Georgian Dream activists. In particular, all employees of the office of Keda Sakrebulo, Gamgeoba office, the department of culture and education, representatives of the mayor in communities, employees of the kindergartens association, employees of the House of Culture and public school teachers were ...
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Date: 2018-09-22 District: Zugdidi , Zugdidi Incident Category: Other, Interference with election campaign |
2018-09-22 On September 22, as the independent presidential candidate endorsed by the Georgian Dream, Salome Zourabishvili was meeting with voters at the Youth Palace of Zugdidi, her speech was interrupted by the UNM representative Maia Kalandia. She was trying to disrupt the meeting by shouting. Supporters of Salome Zourabishvili in the audience were trying to cover her shouts by clapping....
