The pressure of State Security employees on the mayoral and majoritarian candidates of the opposition - this is the main problem that was revealed before the 2017 local elections. Within the scope of the campaign "can not be rigged", observers of opposition parties studied the facts of pressure by special services.

Opposition parties say that during the research period, participation of the State security service in the election campaign was revealed.

Three weeks before the elections, ISFED found 23 cases of harassment/intimidation to opposition candidates.
The facts of pressure revealed by the NGO survey are unacceptable to the ruling party.

In the ISFED survey, there is a separate chapter about campaign against opposition candidates in the social networking . The NGO explains that the disinformation in the social network Facebook was mainly related to the independent candidate Aleko Elisashvili.

ISFED"s survey mentions the scandal of the kindergarten directors and the facts of swearing on the Qur"an in Dmanisi. The NGO demands from the Prosecutor"s Office to initiate investigation into the ongoing processes in the kindergartens.