Gori Office of Democratic Movement Started Preparation for Presidential Elections

Lado Bichashvili, Shida Kartli

Local offices of political parties act as election HQs of the presidential candidates during pre-election period. Members of the Gori office of the Democratic Movement for United Georgia are busy with selecting monitors and their representatives at precincts on the Election Day.

“Now we struggle for getting places in precincts,” chairwoman of Gori office of Burjanadze’s political party Tamar Kodoshvili started her conversation with us and described the mechanisms they intend to apply to during elections.

“After our activists are selected, we will train them to properly and fairly observe the election process and combat all fabrication facts,” Kodoshvili said. 

Democratic Movement is not qualified election subject and they cannot have members in election commissions. There are 122 precincts in Gori DEC and the party will have one observer and one representative in each precinct – total 244 people. Nino Burjanadze’s election HQ in Gori will be busy with observation in Gori district.

Nino Burjanadze is unacceptable candidate for the representatives of both United National Movement and Georgian Dream. During one public meeting, Misha Gogiashvili from the Georgian Dream’s Gori office said that Nino Burjanadze will not even defeat Bakradze [of UNM] and she will rank only third place. “Smear campaign against Nino Burjanadze is a result of ugly cohabitation; people might put up with poverty, hunger but they will not stand humiliation of honor and both UNM and GD know it; the latter could not restore justice because people, who threw stones at people before parliamentary elections, are still unpunished and even more, part of them occupied senior positions in the new government. Who was punished? Nino Burjanadze will put an end to this cohabitation and the justice will reign; every perpetrator will be punished. Only Merabishvili and Akhalaia’s detention cannot be evaluated as a restoration of justice. The justice will be reached after Presidential Election because people acknowledged that GD could not successfully rule the country and Nino Burjanadze will do it,” Kodoshvili said and added that government no longer oppress members of opposition political parties that was usual process during previous years, particularly during last pre-election period. Tamar Kodoshvili complained about misuse of district administrative resource and urges to change election code in order to create equal pre-election environment for every subject and distinguish the ruling party from the government.