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Four Georgian-based non-governmental organisations that reviewed the implementation of the European Union-mediated April 19 agreement between the Georgian government and opposition, which put an end to six months of political tension over the country’s October 2020 parliamentary elections, say ambitious electoral reform was partly carried out in the country while pointing out that the fulfilment of judicial reforms almost failed.

Open Society Georgia Foundation, Georgian Democracy Initiative, International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy, and Transparency International Georgia presented their findings on Wednesday regarding the implementation of the terms of the agreement which committed its signatories to carry out large-scale electoral and judicial reforms.

The report of the NGOs observes the majority of the agreement’s stipulations regarding electoral changes have been partly implemented, such as a fully proportional election system, lowering of the threshold for local elections to 2.5 percent in Tbilisi and up to three percent in the rest of the country, as well as staffing of central, district and precinct election commissions.