Giorgi Santuriani, head of the Central Election Commission’s legal department, on Friday presented statistics on the review of complaints related to the October 26 elections.

According to Santuriani, the complaint review process has been concluded.

“Overall, 1201 complaints were filed with the district election commission concerning Election Day. Of these, 537 are concerned with declaring invalid the results of the Precinct Election Commission or recounting.

466 complaints were submitted with requests for disciplinary action, while 47 were submitted without such requests. The number of complaints requesting an appropriate response or action totalled 151. Out of the complaints submitted, 167 were either fully or partially upheld, while 917 were dismissed. Additionally, 107 complaints, representing 8.9% of the total, were not discussed. The complaint was withdrawn in 3 cases. Only 10 complaints are being discussed at this point, which do not concern election results or are not directly connected to results and concerns drawing up the protocol of administrative offence. The review period for the aforementioned complaints is 10 days, after which an appropriate decision will be issued. As a result of the submitted complaints and the ensuing decisions, disciplinary measures were imposed on 290 members of precinct election commissions.

A total of 12 mobile ballot box results were annulled on the commission’s own initiative, with related complaints also submitted concerning these cases. Additionally, the results from 12 precinct election commissions were recounted on the commission’s initiative, with corresponding complaints submitted for some of these recounted results. In total, based on the grounds prescribed by law, the results of 427 precinct election commissions were recounted. However, the recounts did not result in any significant changes to the final outcomes. The overall changes can be considered minimal.

Additionally, I would also like to present information on complaints referring to drawing up the protocol for administrative offences. This pertains to complaints alleging potential violations of existing regulations concerning electoral campaigning or the misuse of state resources. A total of 114 complaints were filed. The majority of them are concerned about the agitation through social media. Overall, a total of 65 complaints of such nature were filed, and following review, 12 protocols of administrative offence were drawn up and referred to the courts.

The decisions made by the District Election Commissions were subsequently appealed to the general courts. Specifically, the cases in the courts of first instance have been fully resolved, while in the appellate courts, only one case is scheduled for hearing today. We have not yet received any information regarding the outcome. Therefore, the consideration of election disputes has been fully completed, both within the election administration and in the general courts,” stated Santuriani.