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Malazonia according to the Article 45 of the Administrative Law and Article 79 of the
Election Code.
Malazonia is obliged to pay the fine within 30 days. According to Malazonia she was fined
for having performed political agitation as a public servant: “They concluded the briefing I
held in the Georgian Dream‟s Ozurgeti office was political agitation and fined me in my
absense”. 62
44. Unequal Conditions for Political Parties – Office of an Opposition Political Party is
Associated with Problems. The thing is that ruling party opened 10 new offices in Rustavi
before elections. Their HQs with the slogan, flags and election number 5 of the political
party are functioning in almost every district of the city. One of the necessary requirements
for the fair elections is to create equal conditions for all parties participating in the election
marathon. Various facts demonstrate that those principles are breached in the regions (and
not only in the regions). Offices of political parties are one of those problematic issues of the
fair election environment.
Opposition parties face problems to rent offices almost in every region. When National
Movement opened 10 offices in the city, Coalition Georgian Dream‟s Gardabani HQ speaks
about reasons why Gardabani residents refused them to rent their houses. 63
45. Police officers massively fine members of Georgian Dream in Kakheti. Law enforcement
officers fined Merab Ivanashvili from Lagodekhi 340 lari in two days.
“We were traveling from Lagodekhi to Ulianovka village in three or four cars; I was last in
the row. I saw police cars following me in the mirror. I did not break traffic rules; I was
driving at the speed of 60 km per hour. Soon, police officers demanded me to stop the car;
they said I had crossed the axial line but I actually had not done this. Five people were sitting
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