USING OF STATE RESOURCES IN AKHALTSIKHE

2013-09-11 On September 11, in Akhaltsikhe, the coalition Georgian Dream’s presidential candidate Giorgi Margvelashvili held a meeting with voters. The meeting was attended by public servants from municipal authorities. Participants of the assembly, including public school teachers were provided with transportation free of charge from nearby villages by the local office of the coalition Georgian Dream. In an interview with ISFED’s coordinator teacher of Tiseli public school Maia Ustimenko stated that principal of the school Diana Kakheli urged the teachers to attend the assembly and take high school students with them. Similar incident occurred in Kaspi during Giorgi Margvelashvili’s meeting with voters, which ISFED addressed in its previous report and urged municipal authorities to refrain from engaging teachers in political processes.