The High Representative / Vice President Josep Borrell, said on Wednesday, the observers have not declared Georgia’s parliamentary elections to be free and fair.
“Normally, when the observers believe that the elections have been free and fair, they say it. They have not said the contrary but they have not said they are free and fair,” he said during a press point in Brussels.
Borrell went on to say that “the long list of irregularities require analysis and review.”
“And we expect that the Georgian bodies who are in charge of managing the electoral process will do that in a transparent manner. We expect the Central Election Commission of Georgia and the relevant authorities to investigate these irregularities, which have been reported by the observers. You only have to read the report; this is a long list of considerations of what was not good. Not only in the election day but in the previous days. The whole process has been marked, as the observers say, by a tense environment, procedural inconsistencies, particularly on the public sector employees, confiscation of ID cards, and intimidation, concerns about the ability of the voters to cast their vote freely, read the report and then you make your own judgement,” Borrell asserted.
