The CEC advisory group

1. The CEC shall, within 10 days after the elections are called, approve, by an ordinance, the composition of the CEC advisory group. The CEC advisory group shall be set up for the electoral period, with not less that 9 and not more than 15 members.

2. The CEC advisory group shall be composed of a representative of the Office of the Public Defender of Georgia and the international and/or local experts selected by the observer organisations.

3. The CEC advisory group shall submit to the CEC the recommendations with regard to the dispute review process. This group, by a CEC decree, may be granted additional functions, in particular, observing the process of repeat counting of the voting results.

Organic Law of Georgia No 703 of 28 June 2021 – website, 29.6.2021