"I am also moving with a weapon," Kakha Okriashvili, the majoritarian candidate of the United National Movement in the Dmanisi, Tsalka, Bolnisi and Tetritskaro districts told reporters.

According to him, Dimitri Shashkini, a member of the United National Movement, who was moving with a weapon in the village of Talaveri in Bolnisi district today, has the right to carry a weapon.

“We will win with 65% of the votes. He [Dimitri Shashkini ] has the right to carry a weapon and I am also moving with a weapon,” Kakha Okriashvili said.

As Shashkini said he was moving with a weapon in the village of Talaveri, but he categorically denied that he was carrying a weapon to the poll station on Election Day.

On October 31, the citizens of Georgia will elect 150-member parliament through a mixed electoral system with 120 deputies elected through proportional-party lists and 30 lawmakers elected as majoritarians from single-mandate constituencies. The elections are held through a significantly modified electoral system – following months-long protests that started on June 20, 2019, and lengthy foreign mediated negotiations between the ruling Georgian Dream and opposition parties, the Georgian Parliament increased proportional representation from 77 to 120 and decreased majoritarian seats from 73 to 30.