On 26 October 2024, parliamentary elections were held in Georgia for the first time fully following the proportional representation system. In accordance with the legislation of Georgia in force, the pre-election campaign officially started on 27 August 2024, 60 days before the Election Day, when the President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili scheduled the parliamentary elections with the relevant decree.

The reporting period of the document is 27 August 2024 – 31 December 2024. The Democracy Research Centre has been monitoring the pre-election environment since the first day of the official start of the pre-election campaign. However, the report reflects the important events that happened both before the election campaign and after the voting day. Based on the goals of the project, the report also discusses the issue of financing the main electoral entities.

Based on the monitoring objectives, the report analyses:

• Cases of using administrative resources in the pre-election period;
• Incidents of political pressure and dismissal of civil servants;
• Cases of attacks on the representatives and supporters of opposition political parties as well as on journalists;
• Incidents of obstruction to the activities of electoral entities in the pre-election period;
• Cases of participation of unauthorised persons in campaign meetings of the ruling party during the pre-election campaign period;
• Programmes, initiatives and infrastructure projects, the implementation of which, perhaps, did not constitute a violation of the law but put the electoral entities in an unequal position;
• Analysis of credible information about the confiscation of identity documents of members of socially vulnerable families and those employed in the public sector;
• Dismissals in public educational establishments;
• Participation of electoral entities in the events funded through the budget of the local municipality;
• Large-scale and systematic violations that took place on the Election Day; and
• Donations of political parties within the pre-election campaign.

Assessment of the Environment of the Parliamentary Elections of 26 October 2024 (Final Report)