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ISFED (International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy) — Georgia's primary election monitoring organization — blocked from participating in parliamentary working group o…

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ISFED (International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy) — Georgia's primary election monitoring organization — blocked from participating in parliamentary working group on electoral legislation (September 2022). Exclusion coincides with Georgian Dream intensification of anti-CSO narrative following EU candidate status denial. Removes the most credible independent election monitoring voice from the formal legislative consultation process at the moment of heightened electoral sensitivity.
country
Georgia
date text
14/09/2022
entities
sources
  • citation
    CSOMeter September 14 2022 (https://csometer.info — primary); CSOMeter November 23 2022 (People's Power announcement context)
tactics
narratives
campaign ids
campaign phase
Phase 2: Narrative Legitimization
channels
  • Official/Regulatory
consequence category
Institutional
created at
2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00
date precision
day
escalation
2
harm track
Track 1 — Legal/Administrative
id
GEO-019
institutional consequence
ISFED excluded from parliamentary working group on electoral legislation — removes primary election monitoring CSO from formal consultation process
notes
Part of September 2022 GD anti-CSO intensification (see GEO-012 for Kobakhidze authorization speech). ISFED exclusion is TC-35 Institutional CSO Exclusion — formal dissolution of state-CSO cooperation structure as authorization signal. Analytically significant: Georgia's most credible election monitor removed from electoral legislation working group ahead of October 2024 parliamentary elections.
occurred on
2022-09-14
trigger type
TR-01: External Political Event
updated at
2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00
version
1

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