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| Intimidation | |
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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: 2020-10-26 District: Gardabani Political Parties: Lelo for Georgia Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening |
2020-10-26
An activist of the Lelo for Georgia, Rashad Musaev posted an address on social media and threatened to kill Savalan Mirzoev, current majoritarian MP from the Georgian Dream.
According to Grigol Gegelia, Lelo’s majoritarian candidate for Rustavi-Gardabani District, Rashad Musaev was experiencing a severe emotional distress and he made those threats bec...
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Date: 2020-10-26 District: Kobuleti Political Parties: Georgian Dream Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening, Other, Interference in election campaign |
2020-10-26 On October 12, Lelo’s majoritarian candidates, Irakli Kupradze, Paata Tsivadze, Zurab Goliadze and supporters of the party, who arrived at the central marketplace of Kobuleti for campaigning, were not allowed inside the market by the administration. Owners of the market, Aleksandre Romanadze and Malkhaz Romanadze openly declared that they were supporters of the Georgian Dream and they would not allow other parties to meet with people that work in their premises and disseminate campaig...
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Date: 2020-10-26 District: Tkibuli Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening |
2020-10-26 According to representatives of Lelo’s campaign office in Tkibuli, mother of one of their employees, who needs roofing for her house, was given an ultimatum by the mayoral representative in Satsire administrative unit. In particular, she was told that they were going to roof her house if her family stopped supporting Lelo. The woman confirmed to ISFED observer that she did receive such apromise. Mayoral representative denied this and said that in order to fill out a revenue document, ...
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Date: 2020-10-26 District: Dusheti Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening, Other, Interference in election campaign |
2020-10-26 UNM representative Irina Ghaniashvili was giving driving theory lessons in a rented space in Zhinvali. According to her, after UNM representative Zurab Otiashvili visited her, the owner of the space was summoned by Dusheti Mayor, Zurab Sekhniashvili. After that, the owner refused to rent her the space. In addition, unidentified individuals cut Irina Ghaniashvili’s tires. She believes that it has to do with her political activity. ...
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Date: 2020-10-26 District: Bolnisi Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening, Other, Interference in election campaign |
2020-10-26
On October 13, in Bolnisi, a campaign office of the UNM-Strength is in Unity majoritarian candidate for Dmanisi-Tsalka-Bolnisi-Tetritskaro, Kakha Okriashvili was broken into, windows were smashed. Computer equipment that the staff was using was taken. A representative of the party Dimitri Shashkini believes that the incident is con...
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Date: 2020-10-26 District: Chokhatauri Political Parties: Georgian Dream Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening |
2020-10-26 European Georgia representative in Chokhatauri, Lia Chigogidze reported that the ruling party was trying to recruit former PEC commission members from their party in the 2018 election in the following villages: Sameba, Dablatsikhe, Zoti, Nabeghlavi, Zemo Surebi, Kokhnari, Burnati, Tsipnari, Sachamiaseri, Basileti and Khevi. According to Chigogidze, GD representatives were urging certain individuals not to cooperate with the European Georgia and were trying to recruit them. Chigogidze ...
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Date: 2020-10-26 District: Kutaisi Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening, Other, Interference in election campaign, Damaging campaign materials |
2020-10-26
European Georgia press office reported that someone threw a brick at the office of majoritarian candidate Otar Kakhidze in Kutaisi. They could not break the windows, but the banner was damaged. According to Kakhidze, the fact is clearly visible in the footage of surveillance cameras.
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Date: 2020-10-26 District: Chugureti Political Parties: Georgian Dream Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening, Other, Interference in election campaign |
2020-10-26 ...
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Date: 2020-10-26 District: Isani Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening |
2020-10-26 According to Lana Galdava, Lelo’s majoritarian candidate for Isani District, on October 8, in Metromsheni Settlement, her supporters in the district commission, who were placing campaign posters, were asked to provide their personal information by law enforcement officers. To intimidate the supporters, they were told that the data would be used to identify them and that they would be pressured. According to the candidate, the Sta...
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Date: 2020-10-26 District: Senaki Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening |
2020-10-26
On September 30, according to UNM’s campaign manager in Senaki Municipality, Miranda Mirtskhulava, head of the investigative department at Senaki Military Base Levan Salakaia attacked her son and threatened him with a weapon. Mirtskhulava’s son Giorgi Gogava provided the law enforcement officers with a detailed account of the incident. He said that after Salakaia demanded that Giorgi Gogava’s mother abandon her political activities, he verbally insulted and threatened him.
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Date: 2020-10-26 District: Akhalqalaqi Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening |
2020-10-26 UNM majoritarian candidate Melik Raisyan told ISFED observer that election commission members appointed by the party in Akhalkalaki and Ninotsminda are pressured. This was caused by Raisyan’s relationship with the former president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili. In February, Raisyan visited Saakashvili in Ukraine. Their photo was published on the Internet. According to Raisyan, the photo caused negative reactions among the population and in the local media, due to the statements made...
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Date: 2020-10-26 District: Ninotsminda Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening, Other, Interference in election campaign |
2020-10-26 Following the statement of Mikheil Saakashvili in which he referred to Nagorno-Karabakh as the territory of Azerbaijan, locals and supporters of the ruling party in Ninotsminda slammed members of the United National Movement as "traitors”. It was reported that UNM’s local campaign office was closed down, but party representatives issued a statement denying the information. Head of t...
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Date: 2020-10-26 District: Terdjola Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening |
2020-10-26 On October 12, UNM supporter Roin Butskhrikidze told ISFED that he received a call from an unfamiliar person and was asked to meet. According to him, four persons arrived at the meeting. He provided names of two of the individuals – Bidzina Butskhrikidze (security officer) and Jemal Isakadze (office of supervision of the Mayor’s Office). According to Roin Butskhrikidze, he was offered money and employment in exchange for leaving the UNM and starting to work for GD, which he refused. ...
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Date: 2020-10-26 District: Bolnisi Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening, Other, Interference in election campaign |
2020-10-26
According to a member of Kakha Okriashvili’s campaign office, Guja Japaridze, during a meeting of Kakha Okriashvili in village Javshaniani on October 19, as the people were already leaving, assistant of the mayoral representative passed by and verbally insulted participants of the meeting. A verbal confrontation ensued. The person who was insulted filed a police report about the threats. Assistant of the mayoral representative also filed a police report, alleging that Okriashvi...
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Date: 2020-10-26 District: Bolnisi Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening, Other, Interference in election campaign |
2020-10-26
On October 19, someone threw rocks at the car of Levan Mikeladze, an activist of the majoritarian candidate of the united opposition, Kakha Okriashvili, while he was driving on Bolnisi-Marneuli road.
According to the information provided to ISFED observer by Kakha Okriashvili’s campaign office, two cars started foll...
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Date: 2020-10-26 District: Bolnisi Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening, Other, Interference in election campaign, Damaging campaign materials |
2020-10-26 On October 2, at night, outside the Bolsnisi campaign office of MP candidate Kakha Okriashvili, someone threw rocks at the campaign mini-busses and damaged them. Car of a watermelon salesperson standing nearby was also damaged. Billboards were damaged by throwing rocks at them. The police have launched a probe into the matter. ...
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Date: 2020-10-26 District: Bolnisi Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening, Other, Interference in election campaign |
2020-10-26 On September 29, following the incident of Nakhiduri, the united opposition, under the leadership of Kakha Okriashvili organized a peaceful car drive in the streets of Bolnisi. An unidentified individual threw a piece of concrete at one of the cars and smashed its window. ...
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Date: 2020-10-26 District: Gldani Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening, Other, Interference in election campaign |
2020-10-26
On October 9, members of Nika Melia’s campaign office received insulting and threatening messages on their phones, in Viber and in Messenger.
Head of Melia’s campaign office, Tornike Bikashvili told ISFED that many people received almost identical texts, including those who are not from Gldani and who attended a large meeting held on October 9 in Gldani. He thinks that the messages have been sent by the same person or the same group. They did not report it to ...
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Date: 2020-10-26 District: Gldani Political Parties: Georgian Dream Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening, Other, Interference in election campaign |
2020-10-26 On October 1, in the 12th building of Third Micro-District of Mukhiani, a representative of the European Georgia was planning to conduct a door-to-door visit of voters and distribute campaign materials; however, GD coordinators met him outside the building and asked him to leave the area, citing that the European Georgia supporters did not live there. Zviad Bolokadze, representative of the European Georgia, told ISFED that elderly women, who were GD coordinators, started quarreling wi...
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Date: 2020-10-23 District: Gldani Incident Category: Intimidation , Threatening, Other, Interference with political activity |
2020-10-23 On October 1, in the 12th building of Third Micro-District of Mukhiani, a representative of the European Georgia was planning to conduct a door-to-door visit of voters and distribute campaign materials; however, GD coordinators met him outside the building and asked him to leave the area, citing that the European Georgia supporters did not live there. Zviad Bolokadze, representative of the European Georgia, told ISFED that elderly women, who were GD coordinators, started quarreling wi...
