Opposition forms new faction in parliament - Charles Michel’s Reforms Group
The new, multiparty faction is composed of five opposition and two independent MPs. Photo: netgazeti.
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Five MPs of three opposition parties and two independent MPs have formed a new faction in the Georgian state legislature with the name Charles Michel’s Reforms Group.
The chair of the new faction, Republican MP Khatuna Samnidze, has stated that the faction ‘will do its utmost’ for the full implementation of the EU-mediated agreement which was proposed by the European Council President Michel back in April 2021 and was signed by the majority of Georgian political parties.
The signing of the agreement, which includes notes on Georgian election issues as well as fundamental electoral and judicial reforms, resolved a several-month political crisis in Georgia which began after the 2020 parliamentary elections.
Agreement in #Georgia
— Charles Michel (@eucopresident) April 19, 2021
Sakartvelos Gaumarjos!
Congratulations to political leaders on signing the deal out of the current crisis.
You put the people's interests first and let democracy prevail.
Thanks to President @Zourabichvili_S and all parties. pic.twitter.com/cBm4pRQwWr
MPs from the Republican Party, Strategy Agmashenebeli, Girchi More Freedom and independent MPs Grigol Vashadze and Tariel Nakaidze are the members of the new, opposition faction.
Only three of nine political parties which won seats in the country’s parliament in the 2020 elections have not signed the EU-mediated agreement so far.
The three parties are the United National Movement opposition party, European Georgia and the Labour party.
Unlike the European Georgia and the Labour party, the United National Movement have not signed the agreement but entered the state legislature.
Four of five MPs, who appeared in parliament via the party list of European Georgia, including Tariel Nakaidze, left party, signed the EU-mediated agreement and took up their mandates.