The document presents final joint assessment by ISFED and TIG of the main changes made by the Parliament of Georgia to the Election Code. In addition, the document discusses recommendations that should be taken into account after the 2021 local self- ...
In response to the statement issued by the Central Election Commission (CEC) on August 22 regarding the assessment over the staffing of the election administration, ISFED declares that the CEC statement contains inaccuracies and groundless accusation ...
Within its social media monitoring program, ISFED has monitoring political advertising on Facebook and Instagram for the second year, which includes monitoring compliance of political ads with national legislation and mandatory rules of Facebook. Wit ...
According to the April 19 Agreement, mediated by the European Union, the signatory parties agreed to take the responsibility of carrying out an “ambitious electoral reform”[1]. Among other issues, the reform envisaged the selection proces ...
Within its social media monitoring program, ISFED has monitoring political advertising on Facebook and Instagram for the second year, which includes monitoring compliance of political ads with national legislation and mandatory rules of Facebook. Wit ...
Politicization of general education and preschool institutions in Georgia is one of the major challenges related to an election process. ISFED has found that often public school principals and teachers are forced to engage in an election campaign and ...
According to the June 2021 amendments to the Election Code of Georgia, within 10 days from the day of calling the elections, an advisory group of the Central Election Commission (CEC) with at least 9 and not more than 15 members should be formed to ...
The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) has been monitoring the pre-election period for the local elections of October 2, 2021 since June 1st. The monitoring is funded by the United States Agency for International Developme ...