The Communications Commission has deemed Rustavi 2 to have violated the Election Code of Georgia by refusing to place free political advertising, and issued the broadcaster with an administrative violation report. 

The Commission received a complaint from the political union Unity – National Movement, according to which, Rustavi 2 has not aired the free political adverts submitted by the party since 10 October. On that day, Teleimedi and PosTV publically announced that they would no longer place the political ads submitted by opposition parties. Although no statement was made by Rustavi 2, the broadcaster stopped airing the video clip of Unity – National Movement at around the same time. 

According to the Election Code of Georgia, a public broadcaster must allot, not later than the 50th day before the election day, in every three hours no less than 7.5 minutes to broadcast free of charge, the pre-election advertisements, and broadcast on the basis of equality and without discrimination, the pre-election advertisements submitted to it by each qualified electoral subject. 

In light of the above, the Communications Commission has deemed Rustavi 2 to have violated the Election Code of Georgia and issued the broadcaster with an administrative violation report.