Evaluation of a process of selection of professional members of the Supreme Election Commission of Adjara
Tbilisi. International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) publishes an evaluation of a process of selection of professional members of the Supreme Election Commission of Adjara.
“Final report of an international monitoring mission of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, prepared after the 2018 presidential elections in Georgia, talks about changing the rule of staffing the election administration, which is going to promote more balanced political representation. The problem is a likelihood that in line with the current rule of appointment of members of commission one party can have more than one representative in the election commission, which fact increases a degree of political influence at election commissions of all levels.
On this background, existence of objective criteria for selection of professional members becomes more important in order to make sure that bodies involved in the process of administration of elections enjoy public trust and there is no feeling that they are politically biased”, - is stated in the evaluation.
Source: The website of the organization
