The Chairperson of the Central Election Commission (CEC) met with the diplomatic corps and representatives of international observation missions to respond to questions about discrepancies at voting stations which have caused controversies.

As the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) said, in 8% of polling stations, ballot papers outnumbered voters’ signatures on the list. Tamar Zhvania said that the issue identified at different voting stations and reported by the ISFED and various opposition leaders have an objective reason.

The Chairperson of the CEC also stated that opposition candidates and activists “deliberately released” uncorrected summaries.

“There are cases when an error takes place while entering figures in the summaries of election results. To address the error, a corrected summary is made which comes with the initial version of the summary. Of course we use corrected summaries when we count the results. Individuals on social media uploaded the initial versions of the summaries to mislead people, while the corrected summaries were available on our website”, - concluded Tamar Zhvania.