Experts believe Georgian presidential elections will procede in calm atmosphere and with high turnout

One week before the Georgian presidential elections Vestnik Kavkaza discussed the current political situation in the country with Georgian political analysts Iosif Tsiskarishvili and Petre Mamradze.

Both experts believe that the presidential elections will procede in a calm atmosphere.

According to Tsikarishvili, the elections won't be as tense as the previous parliamentary elections, when activists of ruling and opposition parties often clashed with each other. The candidates themselves are also much more calm, he underlines.

Both experts believe that no matter what the results of the elections are, the pro-presidential United National Movement party will do its best to raise a protest campaign.

According to Mamradze, this will be done in order to postpone the inauguration of the newly-elected president so that incumbent President Mikheil Saakashvili will be able to attend the Vilnius summit of the Eastern Partnership as the head of the Georgian state.