16.04.2004 - Source: Civil Georgia

Adjara: Election commission cancels repeat election in two districts after commission chief was barred from entry to Adjara ("CEC Cancels Repeat Elections in Adjara") [#21394],  [ID 5698]

"Chairman of the Central Election Commission Zurab Tchiaberashvili, who was barred from entering Adjarian Autonomy on April 14, told a press conference on Friday, that repeat elections in Adjara’s two districts “will not be held.”

“Local [Adjarian] authorities prevented Central Election Commission to carry out preparations for the elections in Khulo and Kobuleti districts of Adjara,” Zurab Tchiaberashvili said on April 16."

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15.04.2004 - Source: Prima News

Adzharia: Central Electoral Committee to carry out repeated elections in Adzharia evicted ("Electoral committee group evicted from Adzharia") [#21458],  [ID 5699]

"Representatives from a special commission of the Central Electoral Committee, in Adzharia to carry out repeated elections in two areas on 18 April, have been evicted from the republic. The results of the first elections, carried out back on 28 March this year, had been annulled owing to serious irregularities."

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29.03.2004 - Source: Guardian

Adjara: parliamentary elections in the restive province passed off peacefully and its leader accepted the ballot as valid ("Georgian poll is spared violence") [#20889],  [ID 5700]

"Georgia's new president, Mikhail Saakashvili, appeared to have overcome the first big crisis of his presidency last night when disputed elections in the restive province of Adjara passed off peacefully and its leader accepted the ballot as valid.
Aslan Abashidze, leader of Adjara autonomous republic, has been squaring up to Mr Saakashvili ever since he replaced the Soviet-era president, Eduard Shevardnadze, in November's bloodless "rose revolution".

Last night both sides appeared to concede that in Adjara the Georgian parliamentary elections had been without the violence some had feared.

Mr Saakashvili's government had accused the Adjaran authorities of planning to use armed gangs to intimidate voters."

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