“As international observers stated Georgia’s parliamentary elections were competitive and, overall, fundamental freedoms were respected”, one of the leaders of the ruling Georgian Dream party, Archil Talakvadze said on Sunday.

“As you know, international observers held a briefing today and the parliamentary elections held in Georgia on October 31 were assessed as competitive where all fundamental freedoms were respected. According to the report, despite COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia proved to be proficient to hold free and democratic elections. It is the main estimation of the Parliamentary Elections of Georgia by the international society, which determines the compliance of the elections we have held with the international standards. The hereof estimation is much positive than the conclusions on the preceding elections and it states that the election law and the election milieu have been improved. We would like to thank our international partners, international observation missions for arriving in Georgia despite the pandemic and supporting the democratic development of Georgia and observing the Parliamentary elections. We also would like to express our gratitude to our society and our supporters – Georgia has taken yet another important step to the strengthening of democracy. As it was stated at the briefing, our partners, international organizations expect cooperation with the newly formed Parliament in terms of improvement of further reforms and the legislation. We would like to declare that we are fully committed to at a maximal extent cooperate with the international partners and the organizations in the course of our further democratic reforming,” he said.