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The objective of the telecast transmitted on the air of the TV company "Rioni” was to make gender analysis of elections. Guests invited at the telecast – representatives of non-governmental sector, members of the Club of Women-Voters of Fund "Sukhumi” who were actively involved in election process as members of commissions, chairpersons and observers – were talking about how far actively elections were held, whether gender situation changed or not in self-governing units, and how attitude of women’s electorate affected it.

At the telecasts participants mentioned with regret that society did not fully recognize the role and importance of the local self-government. Political parties subjected to criticism political parties about the fact that the focus was basically made on the capital while in regions pre-election campaign was almost not carried out, especially by opposition political actors.

"Most of informational work, especially to support women-candidates was carried out by NGOs”, - mentioned representative of Association of Young Lawyers.

According to opinions of the participants gender situation had not bee changed though in some regions (Oni, Terjola, Kharagauli, Khobi) there were achieved serious success in the local self-government from the point of view of inclusion of more women.

Spectators were promised to meet with women they had elected at the next telecast.