An incident took place during the election process in Vachnadziani village, Gurjaani district of eastern Kakheti region. A member of election commission representing European Georgia Party shut the door of a lavatory to other members of the commission.   

Shalva Natelashvili, Labor Party Leader called on the authorities not to forge election process, which is crime, and not to destroy future to the voters. Natelashvili made this statement when evaluating the election process. 

International Transparency - Georgia, non-governmental organization held a briefing at Media Center. The organization is monitoring local self-governance elections in Tbilisi. The NGO has detected about 50 violations and compiled three complaints thus far. 

The voter turnout for 12:00 was fixed at 16, 5% based on the Central Election Commission (CEC).  The CEC is working in special regime. The election administration will be holding information briefings throughout the day. Information center, hot-line and online chat of CEC is working in 24-hour regime. 

Aleko Elisashvili, independent candidate for post of Tbilisi Mayor said that Tbilisi needs change as fresh air. Elisashvili made this statement when casting his ballot in the local self-governance elections. 

The voter turnout for 10:00 was fixed at 6% based on the Central Election Commission (CEC).  The CEC is working in special regime. The election administration will be holding information briefings throughout the day. Information center, hot-line and online chat of CEC is working in 24-hour regime. 

71 local and 30 international organizations will monitor the local self-governance elections in Georgia  to be held on October 21. The voters will elect 2 058 members of city councils and 64 mayors tomorrow.According to the Central Election Commission, 22 political parties, five election blocs, and one initiative group are registered for the local elections, and 200 initiative groups are registered by District Election Commissions (DEC).369 mayoral candidates are registered, including 13 in Tbilisi for upcoming elections. A number of registered majoritarian candidates amounts to 4 727.  According to party lists, a number of candidates running for Sakrebulo membership stand as 12 902.According to the Central Election Commission, 3,644 polling stations are fully ready (including 10 election precincts created in exceptional cases) to conduct elections.

The National Movement Party presented Nazi Gegia as mayoral candidate in Khoni town of western Imereti region. Grigol Vashadze, Chairman of Political Council and Kutaisi Mayoral candidate of National Movement presented Gegia to locals and introduced the election program of the party. 

Kakha Kaladze, candidate for post of Tbilisi Mayor of Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia Party met with locals of Gldani and Mukhiani districts in Tbilisi. Kaladze talked about infrastructure projects planned for the next 4 years and means how to improve ecologic conditions in Georgia’s capital. He said that rehabilitation of parks and recreational squares was planned, renovation of municipal transport and refinement of construction standards were considered. 

European Georgia Party presented Arain Bkoyan as candidate for post of mayor in Ninotsminda town of Samtskhe-Javakheti region. Davit Bakradze, Leader of the party talked about important projects of the region and introduced the party’s election program to locals. 

The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) published the second interim report about pre-election environment in Georgia ahead of the 2017 local self-governmental elections. The monitoring results mainly refer to various facts regarding use of administrative resources and cases over of impediment into election campaigning activities.   

The National-Democratic Institute (NDI) published a report about the organization’s observation mission carried out during the 2016 parliamentary elections in Georgia.Based on the report, elections were held in an open and competitive environment. Political entities had the ability to carry out pre-election campaign. The report also mentions some facts of violence and frightening and low qualification of election commission members. According to the organization, the right of freedom of expression and assemblage was more or less well observed. The NDI provides some recommendations for the government’s attention. 

Elections, which will have influence on the world’s politics - Voters in the U.S. go to the polls today to elect Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump to replace Barack Obama as President of the United States. The new, 45th president will be elected with 4-year term. Each of the 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, has a certain amount of electoral college votes to award a candidate, based on the number of members of Congress it has. This is roughly in line with each area's population. Except in Maine and Nebraska, the votes are given on a winner-takes-all basis.This system matters, as the popular vote is less important than the electoral college vote. Clinton's campaign should be buoyed by big Democratic states such as New York, New Jersey, Illinois and California, and these populous states could lead her to victory with their large number of electoral college votes. It’s all about the 538 Electoral College votes. A candidate needs at least 270 electoral votes to clinch the White House. Two measures help capture how important a state and its voters will be in determining the next president: “Tipping-point chance” is the probability that a state will provide the decisive vote in the Electoral College. “Voter power index” is the relative likelihood that an individual voter in a state will determine the Electoral College winner.According to Independent, all new presidents face a formidable workload, no matter what their level of experience, and no matter that they sit at the command of the planet’s largest economy, most formidable armed forces and atop a vast bureaucracy that can offer plentiful, if not invariably wise, advice.Now that one of the bitterest campaigns in history has drawn to a close, here are some of the more pressing demands that will be demanding the 45th president’s attention, whether it's Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. The challenges include but are not limited to ISIS, Russia, overstretch and economy.

The sitting of Inter-Institutional Commission is being held at Justice Ministry. Representatives of political parties and non-governmental organizations will present recommendations related to election process and commission work. Transparency International Georgia will soon submit the elaborated recommendations to the parliament.   

The process of discussions of complaints at Marneuli Election Constituency Commission lasted during several hours and turned out noisy. Election Commission chairman and a representative of United National Movement (UNM) Party had a verbal conflict. Members of non-governmental organization, which demanded annulations of results from #26 polling station, left the sitting in protest. A total of 51 complaints were discussed. The majority of them were concerned to procedural violations. 

Georgian Dream excludes forging of election results in Marneuli Election Constituency. The ruling team says that elections were held in free and competitive environment that is recognized by local and international observers. The UNM party demands that election results in the 36th election constituency are declared as null and void. 

Completed elections and a new political reality: Georgian Dream gains the constitutional majority. After the second round of elections ruling party has 115 seats in the parliament.National Movement will enter the parliament with 27 MPs, Patriots Alliance with 6 MPs and Industrials -1.Opposition and civil sector believe that Georgian Dream’s constitutional majority is   threat-containing, however ruling team describes it as possibility to fulfill announced reforms.Ruling team plans to establish a group working on constitutional amendments.The second round of 2016 parliamentary elections were held in Georgia on October 30.  The balloting took place in 50 Majoritarian (single mandate) constituencies. Georgian Dream candidates won 48 out of 50 Majoritarian constituencies.

The ruling team enters the Parliament with constitutional majority – this is the results of the second tour of parliamentary elections according to Central Election Commission (CEC) by this time.The four-month parliamentary  election campaign and two rounds of elections are over. According to preliminary results "Georgian Dream" candidates won 48 out of 50 Majoritaruan constituencies. independent candidate won elections at the Mtatsminda constituency, and candidate from Industrials - in Khashuri.According to preliminary results the Georgian Dream gains 115 seats in the parliament, 113 is enough for winning constitutional majority. National Movement will enter the parliament with 27 MPs, Patriots Alliance with 6 MPs and Industrials -1.The second round of 2016 parliamentary elections was held in Georgia on October 30.  The balloting took place in 50 Majoritarian (single mandate) constituencies where the contenders failed to overcome 50% barrier at October 8 elections. There were 18 election constituencies in Tbilisi and 32 – in regions. 

OSCE election observation mission will issue a final report on 2016 parliamentary elections in two months. Prior to the international observation missions make the joint statement on election process. Representatives of the observation missions from  OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Council of Europe and European Parliament assessed the process at a press conference held in Biltmore Tbilisi Hotel today.

Opposition and civil sector believe that gaining of constitutional majority by Georgian Dream is   threat-containing. Georgian Dream obtained 115 seats at the parliament at the 2016 parliamentary elections. According to party members it will be used for the country’s welfare.