The second round of the Georgian presidential election will be held not later than on December 2, 2018, Chairwoman of the Georgian Central Election Commission (CEC) Tamar Zhvania told journalists at a briefing in Tbilisi on Monday, TASS reports.

Georgia's presidential election will go to a second round run-off after no candidate won more than 50% of Sunday’s vote, according to preliminary results from the Election Administration.

Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs, Giorgi Gakharia, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Georgia Johannes Douma, GeorgiaToday reports.

The National Democratic Institute (NDI) announced that the high-level delegation of short-term observers has arrived to observe the Georgian presidential election on October 28th.

Leading members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s election observation mission to the 28 October presidential election in Georgia are arriving this week in Tbilisi for final preparations of the mission, GeorgiaToday reports.

During the working visit of a delegation led by President of Azerbaijan’s state oil company Rovnag Abdullayev to Georgia, a meeting was held with Georgian Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development Giorgi Kobulia, SOCAR said in a message Oct. 24.

Georgian Foreign Minister Davit Zalkaliani, who is on an official visit to Lithuania, attended the sitting of the bilateral Georgian-Lithuanian commission on European and Euro-Atlantic integration. The sitting was co-chaired by Lithuanian FM Linas Linkevicius, CivilGe reports.

The two-days international meetings forum of the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) has been opened in Tbilisi by the Prime Minister of Georgia, Mamuka Bakhtadze, Agenda reports.

A long-awaited solar panel factory is scheduled to begin production in Kutaisi. The project is implemented by German-Mexican company “AE SOLAR,” although the official contract of cooperation has not yet been signed, GergiaToday reports.

The Georgian Prime Minister says that in the next 10 years, 90% of vehicles in the country will be replaced by electric cars, GeorgiaToday reports.