Our task should be to hold COVID-safe elections, I want to call on our and other party candidates to get involved in the vaccination process. Such a statement made today the Prime Minister of Georgia.

Irakli Garibashvili particularly focused on the approaching date of elections and importance of immunization in view of the Central Election Commission (CEC) and County Election Council members, thereby noting that authorities of the country aim to hold transparent, free and COVID-free elections in Georgia.

“Date of elections is approaching. We are thus entering an active phase. Yesterday, I announced an initiative related to the vaccination of CEC. We will be officially proposing it in the coming days and the Minister will hold meetings with CEC management along with our colleagues. We should aim to hold COVID-free elections in the country. We are capable of demonstrating an outstanding, high standard. On the one hand, we should hold the free, transparent elections, while on the other hand - it should be COVID-free. It means that every member of the central and country election commissions get immunized, along with our nominees running for local elections. I want to call upon other party nominees to get vaccinated to make sure that we hold safe elections in the country”, - added the Head of the Government.

He recommended the nominees for mayors’ positions and voters to always wear face masks at every meeting during this process.

“As public outreach meetings will start soon, I wish to request - recommend - all our candidates to wear the face masks when they interact with voters. Also, I wish to urge our voters to similarly wear facemasks all the time when they attend such meetings”,- said the Prime Minister.