My goal was not to try to falsify the elections, but it was a well-planned provocation by the opposition, said Rovshan Isakandarov, the deputy chairman of the Marneuli City Council, who, according to the widely circulated videos, throws ballots into the ballot box at the 69th polling station of Marneuli.

As Iskandarov writes in the social network "Facebook", representatives of the opposition distribute video material taken out of context.

"I want to bring clarity and shed light on the events that have developed around me and the campaign of lies! This is slander, as if I threw ballots into the ballot box at the polling station in an attempt to falsify the elections! The representatives of the radical opposition are deliberately distorting and disseminating video material taken out of context.

The fact was the following: when I noticed a crowd and a crowd at the polling station, I immediately went inside and tried to find out about the situation, and it turned out that the opposition representatives were violating the election rules with unheard of impudence.

They engaged in agitation-propaganda at the polling station and did not allow the potential voters of "Georgian Dream" to place their ballots in the ballot box, and it was these ballots that they (opposition representatives) held in their hands, which more than one person witnessed.

I couldn't contain my emotions and angrily took the ballots out of my hands and put them in the ballot box. So, my goal was not an attempt to falsify the elections, but it was a well-planned provocation by the opposition," Iskandarov wrote.