Meetings in Shida Kartli
Shida Kartli. On August 7 the Civil Development Agency
(CIDA) organized the information meeting in the Gori Democracy Development
Center.
Local CSOs and guests invited by CIDA have
participated in the meeting: representatives of the Georgian Young Lawyers'
Association, ISFED and Transparency International - Georgia.
Two issues were discussed: Transparency
International - Georgia has presented the results of the report concerning the
spending of the central budget during the election year. In addition, the
results were compared with the priorities and expenses of the non-election year
budgets.
Second issue covered the portal www.electionportal.ge set up by
the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association, ISFED and Transparency International -
Georgia.
The portal reflects pre-election processes and
will also operate on the polling day and afterwards. Any citizen can provide to
the portal administration the violation observed by him/her or any other
election-related information, photo materials, etc. Based on the received
information the portal maintains the map of violations, which is constantly
amended and updated.
A discussion has followed the presentation of the
portal.
