The CEC Chairmanship Candidates are known. Salome Zourabichvili presented Tamar Zhvania, Mariam Shelagia and Vladimer Bozhadze. The President of Georgia named those candidates as a result of consultations with NGOs, but it is clear that none of the relevant NGOs in Georgia were involved in these consultations.
" This meeting was organized at such a speeds and in such a format that it was obviously absolutely formal, so it seems that the President of Georgia had already decided whom to nominate, so we did not consider it necessary to take part in this process, but ,nevertheless, we still call on her to select the most independent candidate , "said Eka Gigauri, executive director of the NGO" Transparency International - Georgia ".
Executive Director of the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy, Mikheil Benidze said that he had received an invitation to the President three hours before the meeting and failed to come. But he knows that the meeting was formal.
"We really got an invitation, it was just some kind of communication two to three hours before the meeting, we could not have been physically able to go to this meeting, but as we have seen, thee meeting with our partner NGO representative was , unfortunately, of formal nature, "said Mikheil Benidze.