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    "date": "2028-10-28",
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    "provenance": {
      "from": "researcher agent 2026-10-02: Constitution of Georgia (Arts. 37, 38, 56) and Election Code of Georgia (Arts. 60, 75, 76, 108, 125, 127) on matsne.gov.ge; 2024 precedent from civil.ge live blog and reports, Georgia Today, Al Jazeera and parliament.ge (CEC sites cesko.ge and results.cec.gov.ge Cloudflare-blocked)",
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        "name": "Parliament of Georgia",
        "body": "legislature-unicameral",
        "seats": 150,
        "seats_provisional": false,
        "polls_close_utc": "2028-10-28T16:00:00Z",
        "authority": {
          "id": "ge-cec",
          "name": "Central Election Commission of Georgia",
          "name_local": "საქართველოს ცენტრალური საარჩევნო კომისია",
          "role": "electoral-commission",
          "homepage": "https://cesko.ge/",
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        "final_expected": {
          "from": "2028-11-12T08:00:00Z",
          "by": "2028-11-25T19:59:59Z",
          "confidence": "announced",
          "basis": "Election Code Art. 125(1) (also Art. 76(1)): the CEC, based on DEC and PEC protocols and final court decisions, 'not later than the 26th day from Election Day', summarises the results and draws up the final summary protocol - by Thursday 23 Nov 2028. Art. 76(5): the CEC may not summarise while election disputes are pending in the courts. District commissions summarise by the 15th day (Art. 75(1)), 12 Nov 2028, so the window opens then at 12:00 local (ESTIMATED floor). 2024 precedent: the CEC adopted and signed the final summary protocol on 16 Nov 2024, day 21 after the 26 Oct poll (civil.ge, 17 Nov 2024; Al Jazeera, 16 Nov 2024); not read on cesko.ge, which is Cloudflare-blocked. The window closes at the end of Saturday 25 Nov 2028 local, two days past the statutory deadline. Repeat voting (Art. 125(17), within two weeks of polling day) or a re-run (Art. 127) would move the final result later; a snap election after a dissolution (Constitution Art. 37(3): 45-60 days after dissolution) would replace this date. No court confirms the result, so no court-validation stage."
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            "stage": "election-night",
            "from": "2028-10-28T16:00:00Z",
            "by": "2028-10-29T12:00:00Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "precedent",
            "citation": "Election Code Art. 60(1): polling 'from 8:00 to 20:00 hours' (20:00 Asia/Tbilisi, UTC+4, no DST = 16:00 UTC); Art. 76(4): the CEC posts precinct summary protocols on its website as they are received, and officials may not announce preliminary results not published there. 2024 precedent (polling day 26 Oct 2024): the CEC released preliminary figures from electronically counted precincts at about 22:00 local, and its results site showed more than 99% of precincts counted by about 09:30-10:00 local on 27 Oct (civil.ge live blog; Georgia Today, 27 Oct 2024: '3088 out of 3111 precincts'). Not read on the CEC site itself (Cloudflare-blocked). The window closes at 16:00 local on Sunday 29 Oct 2028, about six hours past precedent. Preliminary, not the official result.",
            "source": null,
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          {
            "stage": "final-result",
            "from": "2028-11-12T08:00:00Z",
            "by": "2028-11-25T19:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "announced",
            "citation": "Election Code Art. 125(1) (also Art. 76(1)): the CEC, based on DEC and PEC protocols and final court decisions, 'not later than the 26th day from Election Day', summarises the results and draws up the final summary protocol - by Thursday 23 Nov 2028. Art. 76(5): the CEC may not summarise while election disputes are pending in the courts. District commissions summarise by the 15th day (Art. 75(1)), 12 Nov 2028, so the window opens then at 12:00 local (ESTIMATED floor). 2024 precedent: the CEC adopted and signed the final summary protocol on 16 Nov 2024, day 21 after the 26 Oct poll (civil.ge, 17 Nov 2024; Al Jazeera, 16 Nov 2024); not read on cesko.ge, which is Cloudflare-blocked. The window closes at the end of Saturday 25 Nov 2028 local, two days past the statutory deadline. Repeat voting (Art. 125(17), within two weeks of polling day) or a re-run (Art. 127) would move the final result later; a snap election after a dissolution (Constitution Art. 37(3): 45-60 days after dissolution) would replace this date. No court confirms the result, so no court-validation stage.",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null,
            "observedSource": null
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          {
            "stage": "government",
            "from": "2028-11-12T08:00:00Z",
            "by": null,
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "announced",
            "citation": "Constitution Art. 38: the new Parliament first meets no later than the 10th day after the official announcement of the results; Art. 56(1)-(2): once its full powers are recognised the Government relinquishes authority, and within 2 weeks Parliament holds a vote of confidence in a Government proposed by the Prime Minister candidate of the party with the best result (majority of all members); Art. 56(5): the President appoints the Prime Minister within 2 days of the vote. No government before the final result. 2024: Parliament voted confidence on 28 Nov 2024 (parliament.ge, 28 Nov 2024), 33 days after polling day.",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null,
            "observedSource": null
          }
        ],
        "sources": [
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            "url": "https://results.cec.gov.ge/",
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            "kind": "results_index",
            "kindReason": "results host, but its root lists many elections",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Central Election Commission results site (index), not a page for this election. 2024 results were published as a hash-routed dashboard, results.cec.gov.ge/#/en-us/election_57/tr/dashboard (linked by civil.ge's live blog, 27 Oct 2024); the identifier for 2028 is not known and is not guessed. The site sits behind a Cloudflare challenge and could not be read directly on 2 Oct 2026.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://matsne.gov.ge/en/document/view/1557168",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Organic Law 'Election Code of Georgia', official English consolidation on the Legislative Herald (matsne.gov.ge), version of 17 Dec 2025: Art. 60 (polling 8:00-20:00), Arts. 75-76 and 125 (DEC and CEC summarisation deadlines), Art. 108 (date of regular elections). Read 2 Oct 2026.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://matsne.gov.ge/en/document/view/30346",
            "role": "calendar",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Constitution of Georgia, consolidated version of 29 Jun 2020 (latest on matsne.gov.ge in English and Georgian, checked 2 Oct 2026): Art. 37(2)-(3): 150 members for 4 years; 'Regular parliamentary elections shall be held on the last Saturday of October of the calendar year in which the term of Parliament expires' (repeated in Election Code Art. 108(1); the President fixes the date 60 days before, Art. 108(2)). Working: last regular election Saturday 26 Oct 2024 (itself the last Saturday of October 2024) + 4-year term -> term expires in 2028 -> last Saturday of October 2028 = 28 Oct 2028. TENTATIVE: not yet called. Art. 38 (first sitting), Art. 56 (vote of confidence).",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Georgian_parliamentary_election",
            "role": "see-also",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://cesko.ge/",
            "role": "authority-home",
            "kind": "emb_home",
            "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "authority",
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        "government": {
          "earliestUtc": "2028-11-12T08:00:00Z",
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          "note": "Days from polling day to the parliamentary vote of confidence: 2024, 28 Nov (33; parliament.ge). Earlier cycles used a mixed electoral system with majoritarian runoffs and are not counted. If no confidence vote passes in time, Constitution Art. 56(3)-(4) leads to a second nomination round or dissolution and extraordinary elections. A government market needs a deadline well beyond the constitutional sequence (about 26 + 10 + 14 + 2 days)."
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        "live_count": null,
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