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.