“Unfortunately, it took ISFED more than a month to admit that its Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT) results were falsified,” a leader of the parliamentary majority, Irakli Kobakhidze, commented on the resignation of ISFED Executive Director.

ISFED still does not recognize that imbalances allegedly found in 8% of precincts were also fake, Kobakhidze noted.

“Counting invalid ballots is a fraud, a falsification of PVT results. We identified these flaws on November 2 and informed the public on November 3. Sadly, it took more than a month for ISFED to admit that its PVT results were falsified,” MP stressed.

Elene Nizharadze, the Executive Director of the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) in Georgia, resigned on Thursday.

Nizharadze will hold a detailed press conference on Friday.

ISFED released a statement on the parallel vote tabulation of Georgian parliamentary elections on December 11. The statement read that the internal audit results confirmed the accuracy of the PVT methodology. However, a technical fault was identified in the vote calculation formula. Namely, the formula counted the number of invalid ballots along with the votes received by the electoral subjects, ISFED informed.

The adjusted ISFED PTV results coincided with the final results of the CEC.