Tbilisi. The "International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy" released the fifth interim report on the monitoring of pre-election environment. The report covers the period from 1 August 2012 to 26 August 2012 inclusive. Throughout this period ISFED monitored the pre-election period in several areas, namely it monitored: the activities of 73 electoral administrations functioning in Georgia; the public meetings and other political activities held by the political parties/election entities; the facts of abuse of administrative resources; the cases of intimidation/threat on political grounds, prevention of political activities and bribing of voters. The organization continues the monitoring over pre-election environment and will release the next report in the second half of September.

Source: isfed.ge