Congress President Marc Cools said during his exchange of views with the CoE Committee of Ministers on 10 September that the Congress will send a fact-finding mission to Georgia by the end of September. Cools told the ministers that the calls for establishing the minimum conditions for holding free and fair local elections “remained unheeded” …| Civil Georgia
The ruling Georgian Dream party’s mayoral candidates are running unchallenged in 25 of a total of 64 municipalities nationwide, while in three others their only rivals are independent candidates named by so-called “initiative groups” or a minor party, leaving GD without mainstream opposition challengers in a total of 28 municipalities, according to September 9 data …| Civil Georgia