Parliament Discusses Election Code

(Tbilisi, August 12, 2003, Civil Georgia) – A special parliamentary session will discuss today a draft of amendments to the Election Code, considering broad anti-fraud measures.

Parliament will also discuss the controversial proposal, which prohibits the current members of the Central Election Commission (CEC) to be nominated for the new CEC. On August 5, Parliament failed to endorse this proposal, as the pro-Presidential Parliamentary factions voted against it.

After the categorical demand of the opposition factions, MPs agreed to vote on the issue once again.

Election observer NGO, International Society for Fair Elections!
and Democracy (ISFED), also demands that Parliament endorse this proposal.

“The current CEC is absolutely discredited and even if one acting member of the CEC will be re-elected to the new commission, there will be no chance for fair elections,” Nugzar Kupreishvili of ISFED told Civil Georgia.

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