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At the end of the previous year the issue of CEC chairman’s approval remained open. NGOs were to present the candidates for the CEC chairmanship to the president by January 8. However, due to this requirement they had to meet M.Saakashvili in Batumi, on January 10. In total 14 candidates were registered. The president was to choose 3 out of them. M.Saakashvili called on the parliament to prolong the term, but opposition parties blamed him in law violation for breaching terms and the initiative on forceful amendments to the election code. On January 12 the president named 3 candidates for CEC chairmanship. E.Siradze was not among them despite that she, unlike other candidates, had the support of several NGOs and opposition. Finally, the opposition did not take responsibility on electing CEC chairman and the parliament had to approve the candidate. Zurab Kharatishvili became a CEC chair.
By the initiative of CEC chairman a special group will work on checking election lists. 12 qualified political entities expressed their interest to take part in the monitoring process. In this regard GEL 1 200 000 was allocated from budget.
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