{"id":45907,"date":"2013-10-28T18:02:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T14:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=45907"},"modified":"2013-10-28T18:02:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T14:02:14","slug":"international-observers-praise-georgias-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=45907","title":{"rendered":"International Observers Praise Georgia&#8217;s Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Giorgi-Margvelashvili.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45905\" alt=\"\u0533\u056b\u0578\u0580\u0563\u056b \u0544\u0561\u0580\u0563\u057e\u0565\u056c\u0561\u0577\u057e\u056b\u056c\u056b\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Giorgi-Margvelashvili.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Giorgi-Margvelashvili.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Giorgi-Margvelashvili-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Giorgi-Margvelashvili-486x300.jpg 486w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>International observers gave their stamp of approval to Georgia&#8217;s presidential election on Monday, characterizing it as &#8220;clean&#8221; and &#8220;transparent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s election was won easily by Giorgi Margvelashvili, a 44-year-old former university rector with limited political experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a positive and transparent election, the Georgian people have confirmed last year&#8217;s historic transfer of power,&#8221; Joao Soares who lead the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe observer mission, said in a statement. &#8220;This clean election following a political cohabitation tells me that Georgia&#8217;s democracy is maturing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Margvelashvili won Sunday&#8217;s election with 62 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The presidential candidate from Saakashvili&#8217;s party, former parliament speaker David Bakradze, finished second with 22 percent. <b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>In third place among the 23 candidates with 10 percent was Nino Burdzhanadze, a veteran politician who has called for Saakashvili to be jailed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; International observers gave their stamp of approval to Georgia&#8217;s presidential election on Monday, characterizing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":45905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,140,137],"tags":[3228],"class_list":["post-45907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-region","category-world","tag-georgias-election","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}