Procedure for appointing and terminating the term of office of CEC members by parties

1. Six members of the CEC shall be appointed under the procedure established by this article by the parties that were registered by the CEC Chairperson independently or through an electoral bloc for participation in the Parliamentary Elections, which were granted the mandates of members of the Parliament of Georgia under Article 125(4-9) of this Law, and which set up a Parliamentary faction.

2. Parties defined in paragraph 1 of this article shall appoint a CEC member (members) under the following procedure:

a) the number of votes received by a party list shall be multiplied by 6 and divided by the sum of the number of votes received by the parties defined in this article. The whole part of the figure obtained shall be the number of the CEC members that a party may appoint, unless otherwise determined by this article;
b) to determine the number of votes received by a party which is represented in the Parliament of Georgia by the faction and which participated in the elections through an electoral bloc, for the purposes of this article, the number of votes received by the electoral bloc shall be divided by the number of parties included in the electoral bloc.

3. If the whole part of the figure obtained under the procedure established by paragraph 2 of this article is less than one, the priority right to appoint one CEC member shall be granted to such parties based on the sequence of the numbers of votes received by them. To exercise this right, when needed, the parties that have been granted the right to appoint CEC members under paragraph 2 of this article shall be deprived, according to the sequence of the number of votes received, of the right to appoint one CEC member, provided that they retain at least one seat in the CEC (if the number of parties that have been granted the right to appoint CEC members under paragraph 2 of this article is 6 or more than 6, any other parties defined in this paragraph shall not

appoint a CEC member).

4. If the number of parties defined in paragraph 2 of this article is more than 6, at the time of appointing a CEC member, the priority shall be given to a party that has received more votes in the elections. The priority at the time of appointing a CEC member shall be given to a party that stands before other parties in the list of members of electoral blocs.

5. If, under the procedure established by this article, the number of CEC members still did not make 6, the right to appoint a CEC member to make its number 6 shall be granted to the parties defined in paragraph 2 of this article according to the sequence of votes. If a party fails to appoint a CEC member members) within 7 days after the right was granted, this right shall be gained in sequence by the parties defined in paragraph 2 of this article.

6. A party may withdraw the CEC member appointed by it. No such withdrawal shall take place during the period from the day of calling elections to the day of summing up the final election results. A party may appoint a new CEC member within the above period only in the case of resignation or death of the appointed member.

Organic Law of Georgia No 877 of 27 July 2013 – website, 20.8.2013
Organic Law of Georgia No 5438 of 22 June 2016 – website, 12.7.2016
Organic Law of Georgia No 1274 of 26 July 2017 – website, 29.7.2017
Organic Law of Georgia No 3266 of 21 July 2018 – website, 13.8.2018