
Representatives of the United Georgian opposition and their presidential candidate Levan Gachechiladze on Tuesday morning entered the office of the Chairman of the Central Election Commission Levan Tarkhnishvili and demanded his resignations, RIA Novosti reports.
Gachechiladze accused the head of the CEC of a data tank and claimed that the United Opposition has a documentary confirmation of its victory in the early presidential elections on January 5. According to official figures, after processing 87.4 percent of the ballots, Mikhail Saakashvili leads with a result of 52.1 percent, Gachechiladze is gaining 24.98.
An opposition presidential candidate expressed his complaints to reporters and stated that he started a noise in the CEC building in order to attract the attention of the press. Tarkhnishvili regarded the actions of the opposition in the commission of the commission as an attempt to pressure and intimidation.
"The United opposition has their own representatives in the CEC and at all levels of election commissions. All the data made in the commission made with the participation of representatives of the opposition to the CEC," he said. According to him, the procedure for considering complaints has its own rules and "break into the CEC building, the chairman’s office is unacceptable."
Later, representatives of the United opposition left the CEC premises and said that they intend to achieve complaints under the current legislation.