The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Ivane
Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University has called on non-governmental
organizations to monitor the Student Self-Governance elections planned
for November 25.
CEC Chairman Demetre Egnatashvili said: “We want to focus on
transparency of elections and therefore we call on all election
monitoring non-governmental organizations to come and monitor the
election process.”
The election commission plans to send official letters of request to
the following NGOs: Transparency International – Georgia, Georgian Young
Lawyers Association, International Society for Free and Fair Elections
and other election watchdog groups. Egnatashvili said that the
competition is very high. Independent candidates will compete with each
other.
TSU Student Self-Governance elections will be held on November 25. The
university students will directly elect 140 delegates (20 delegates from
each of seven faculties). The rule of electing the members (delegates)
of the TSU Self-Governance has been amended. Registration of electoral
subjects took place at the election commission of Student
Self-Governance on November 14-18.
Number of voters, eligible to cast ballot in the November 25 elections,
stands at 20,615. Voting will be held at 13 polling stations located at
the TSU Buildings. According to the current data, the election
commission has received 174 applications from candidates running in the
Student Self-Governance elections.
