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Tbilisi, 18 April
’04,
civil.ge. - The
Central Election Commission (CEC) approved on April 18 final vote
tally of the March 28 parliamentary elections. According to the
final results of the elections two parties could secure seats in the
new parliament – President Saakashvili’s National
Movement-Democrats, which received 66,24% of votes and the Rightist
Opposition – New Rights-Industrialists – 7,96%. Other 10 parties
and 4 election blocs failed to secure seats in the legislative body
as they received less than 7% of votes: Labor Party - 6,01%;
Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze’s Revival Union – 3,89%; Freedom (Tavisupleba)
Movement – 4,39%; NDP-Traditionalists – 2,55%; Unity – 2,47%; The
final vote tally was approved by 15-member CEC with 11 votes to 2.
Two representatives of the Revival Union were against the vote tally
citing mass irregularities during the elections, while the
repre-sentative of the Labor Party boycotted the CEC session, also
citing ballot fraud. The Labors intend to appeal the Supreme Court
with the demand to annul results of the March 28 polls. One members
of the CEC from the Revival Union party was absent at the session.
[…]
Tbilisi, 17 April, ’04, Black Sea
Press. - The Labor Party of Georgia (leader Shalva Natelashvili)
is going to appeal against the final protocol of the parliamentary
elections
which the Central Election Commission
(CEC) is going to make public on 19 April , Gela Danelia, the head
of the Labor Party press center, said to a Black Sea Press reporter.
The Party demands that the results of the parliamentary elections
on proportional system be annulled and that repeat parliamentary
elections be called this fall. It demands that 150 deputies be
elected to parliament during the repeat elections based on the
results of the referendum held on 2 November last year. He
underscored that if the Supreme Court refused to satisfy their
claim, the Party would appeal to the Strasbourg Court. The Labor
Party claims that the 28 March parliamentary elections had been
stuffed throughout Georgia. […] The Labor Party is going to send
a claim to the Constitutional Court of Georgia demanding that the 28
March elections be recognized “unconstitutional”.
Tbilisi, 16 April
’04, Black Sea Press. - Zurab Chiaberashvili, chairman of Central
Election Commission (CEC) of Georgia, asked General Prosecutor's
Office to examine the offences at Parliamentary elections of March
28 in Batumi, Keda, Kobuleti, Shuakhevi, Khelvachauri and Khulo in
Achara and in Bolnisi, Gardabani and Marneuli in Kvemo Kartli.
Zurab Chiaberashvili reported at the today's briefing that he
addressed with proper letter Irakli Okruashvili, the Prosecutor
General. The chairman of CEC asked to institute criminal
proceedings after the cases of the offences.
Tbilisi, 17 April ’04, BBC Monitoring,
Source: Caucasus Press. - The Supreme Court of Georgia has
rejected an appeal filed by the Young Lawyers Association and the
Revival union [led by Ajarian leader Aslan Abashidze] against the
decision of the Central Electoral Commission [CEC] to annul election
results in [Ajaria's] Kobuleti and Khulo districts. The lawyer
for the Young Lawyers Association, Malkhaz Ghughunishvili, told
Caucasus Press that, when he went to the court today, he was told
that the court had dismissed the appeal. Ghughunishvili was informed
that the court ruling would be sent to the Young Lawyers
Association. [Passage omitted] According to Ghughunishvili, since
the court ruling was delivered without oral hearings, this means
that the association and Revival had had no right to appeal against
the CEC's decision. "This is illegal, because the association had
the status of an election monitor during the [28 March parliamentary
elections] while Revival took part in the elections, so the issue
directly concerned Revival," Ghughunishvili said.
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