The changes in the CEC are an indication that they are very nervous and preparing for the elections - they know that they will have to call elections, we must be ready, - the fifth President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, stated at the briefing.

According to her, “we have the political readiness to defeat this regime.”

Our first topic of today’s meeting of the Resistance Platform is, of course, that today direct political persecution has been added to these endless repressions and various actions of the repressive regime. Today, Badri Japaridze is at the prosecutor’s office and is awaiting indictment. This is another indication that the regime is trying to intimidate us with repressions. All this is not working. We have the political readiness to defeat this regime.

It is very interesting what the regime is doing at this time, at least in terms of elections. Changes in the CEC, which are a direct recognition that one of the forms of fraud was when people were not asked to confirm and verify their identity. Today, they have already adopted a change that is the legalization of this form of fraud, that is, the legalization of “carousels”. This is an indicator that they are very nervous and are preparing for the elections. Those who suspect that at some point they will be forced to call parliamentary elections should better watch what they are doing and how much they are preparing. They know that they will have to call elections and for this they are trying to ensure everything as much as possible. They will not succeed! This is also a sign for us, the Resistance Platform, that we must also be ready. Readiness means having an army of observers ready and starting to prepare for it today. This is the right path and we, all together, should prepare for this,” Zurabishvili said.

For information, as Nino Dolidze, Chairwoman of the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy, writes on social networks, yesterday, the Central Election Commission adopted amendments that limit the possibility of full observation of the vote.

“Yesterday, the CEC adopted amendments by resolution that limit the ability to fully observe the voting process. The following is particularly problematic - any person with the right to be present in the polling station is prohibited from requesting the voter’s identity document.

With this amendment, observers will no longer be able to detect individuals who are trying to vote on behalf of others (the so-called “carousel”), which is one of the main methods of election fraud,” writes Nino Dolidze.