PM Garibashvili meets Georgian Dream coalition members

Upcoming self-government elections and related issues were discussed at a meeting led by Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili with parliamentary majority representatives.

Garibashvili presented Energy Minister Kakha Kaladze as the coalition's election campaign leader and provided information about how the major electoral office will function in the future.

Chairperson of the parliamentary fraction Georgian Dream – Republicans, David Berdzenishvili, said the Georgian Dream coalition would name the majority candidates not according to quotas but would consider competitiveness.

"We will retain the model of electoral lists’ formation, which was developed for the 2012 Elections [and] Georgian Dream – Democratic Movement will be represented in the list with 50% [while] another 50% will be of other parties. I am sure that the coalition will be represented with solid composition in all representative bodies after the elections,” Berdzenishvili told to journalists after the meeting,

He said a structural unit such as a political council with an office in Tbilisi would be set up under the major electoral office, which will consist of the heads of the Tbilisi offices of the parties included in the Georgian Dream coalition as well as the coalition fractions’ members from the Tbilisi City Council.

Georgian Dream coalition member Eka Beselia said the coalition planned to be ready by the beginning of April.