Opponent threw black paint on the face of Georgia’s electoral chief

David Kirtadze, member of the opposition of the Central Election Commission of Georgia, carried out an attack this Saturday, November 16, 2024, en contra de Giorgi Kalandarishvili, president of this division, throwing black paint on it.

The attack occurred when the parliamentarians were at a Commission meeting, in which Consideration was on the table to approve the parliamentary elections, held on October 26.

Protesters gathered outside the headquarters of the commission in Tbilisi, where authorities announced the victory of the ruling Georgian Dream party. Opposition supporters have rejected the results, claiming the vote was rigged, a charge the party strongly denies.

For his part, the opposition Georgi Vashadze, who called the opponents of the ruling party to “arm themselves with paint” to throw it in the faces of “all the election falsifiers”pointed out that “these elections are illegitimate both for those inside and for those outside.”

Before the incident, Kirtadze told Kalandarishvili that the official results did not reflect the “real election” of the voters.

Results of legislative elections in Georgia

However, despite the complaints, The Central Electoral Commission assured that the final results of the controversial elections legislative elections confirmed the triumph of the ruling force.

Georgian Dream Got 53.93% of the votes, with which he comfortably surpassed the opposition candidate from the coalition of parties, which got 37.79%. According to the final report of the elections, The ruling force will claim 89 seats in the composition of the next parliament.

The four opposition parties, which refuse to accept the results of the race and demand that the vote be redone, will have 61 seats. It must be emphasized that both the European Union and the United States have indicated “irregularities” in the electoral process and have requested that the Georgian authorities carry out investigations into this matter.

However, the ruling party insists that it has made a free and transparent election, reiterating that accession to the European Union “remains the top priority” of Tbilisi, together with the association with NATO, according to which this aspiration is fixed in the Constitution of Georgia.