NGO "Society for Fair Elections and Democracy" has presented the interim evaluation report of Monitoring the Process of Certification and Competitions for Public Service Employment.
The Head of the organization, Nino Lomjaria said that on the most part interviews ran smoothly, equal time was allocated to all candidates and questions were similar in terms of their content and difficulty.Commission members were mostly positive towards candidates. However, in 8 self-governing territories commission members asked irrelevant questions and discriminated against some candidates based on their political affiliation and gender. The report includes several acts of pressure against candidates on political grounds.
ISFED’s observers reported selective approach of commission members in Akhmeta, Tsageri, Khulo and Gardabani municipality towards candidates based on their political affiliation. Discrimination of candidates based on gender was found in Keda self-governing territory. Pressuring of candidates based on their political affiliation was found in Gori municipality (against members of Free Democrats) and Akhmeta municipality (against members of the Republican Party). Winning candidates were identified based on their political affiliation in Kaspi municipality.