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Georgian municipal elections 2021. Photo: Mariam Nikuradze/OC Media.
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Transparency International Georgia ‘no longer able’ to observe October elections

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UPDATE: On Tuesday afternoon, the Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Kobakhidze, called on the Georgian Anti-Corruption Bureau to reconsider its decision to label TI Georgia and its director, Eka Gigauri, as entities with electoral goals. The government administration published Kobakhidze’s statement on Facebook.  According to Kobakhidze, the Bureau’s decision, from a legal standpoint, was based on the ‘highest standard of truthfulness’. However, he recommended that the status of TI Georgia sho

TI research points to ‘signs of political corruption’ in recent Georgian elections
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TI research points to ‘signs of political corruption’ in recent Georgian elections

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Transparency International Georgia (TI) has urged the state audit and prosecutor’s offices to identify party donations with high risk of political corruption. The report published by TI on 13 December looks into party donations in the October local government elections in Georgia, finding that 91% of all donations went to the ruling Georgian Dream party. [Read more about the local elections in Georgia on OC Media: Kaladze elected Tbilisi Mayor as Georgian Dream wins landslide nationwide]

Sixteen Georgian MPs ‘haven’t disclosed their business connections’
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Sixteen Georgian MPs ‘haven’t disclosed their business connections’

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Fifty-one members of Georgia’s Parliament are engaged in private business, while sixteen have not officially declared their ties with them, a new report from the anti-corruption organisation Transparency International — Georgia (TI) claims. Fifty-one out of 150 Georgian MPs own a share in private enterprises, TI wrote in a 19 September report ‘Ties of MPs with business, incompatible activities, and undeclared assets’. The majority of them — forty — are members of the ruling Georgian Dream

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