Senaki Municipal Assembly session with no quorum called “unbelievable” by ruling party MP
"The joint activities of the Saakashvili-Gakharia parties are already a common story, but the fact that there was not a single person saying that it is unbelievable madness to open and hold a session in a 33-member Senaki Municipal Assembly with 16 deputies is surprising,” Mdinaradze said, referring to the imprisoned former president Mikheil Saakashvili and For Georgia party leader and former GD prime minister Giorgi Gakharia. Photo: Georgian Dream press office.
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Ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party MP Mamuka Mdinaradze has responded to a session involving the municipal assembly in the western Georgian town of Senaki on Wednesday, where members from opposition parties gave a go-ahead to the meeting without having a quorum of required members, by calling it “unbelievable”.
Mdinaradze reacted to the session by saying "an incredibly comic incident has taken place in 21st century Georgia", criticising the decision to hold the meeting and alleging informal ties between different opposition groups.
The joint activities of the Saakashvili-Gakharia parties are already a common story, but the fact that there was not a single person saying that it is unbelievable madness to open and hold a session in a 33-member Senaki Municipal Assembly with 16 deputies is surprising,” Mdinaradze said, referring to the imprisoned former president Mikheil Saakashvili and For Georgia party leader and former GD prime minister Giorgi Gakharia.
Mdinaradze, who is also the executive secretary of the ruling party, stressed the regulatory requirement that said holding municipal assembly sessions was authorized if attended by more than half of the full member composition. In the case of Senaki, the requirement would involve at least 17 members for a successful quorum.
Nevertheless, these two parties, already in a coalition, started a non-existent session without a quorum, adopted so-called ‘decisions’, ‘dismissed’ the Chairman of the Mandate Commission and ‘appointed’ a member of the [United] National Movement [opposition party] in his place, supported by Gakharia's party members,” Mdinaradze said.
Local self-government elections took place in Georgia in October 2021, with the ruling party winning mayoral elections in 63 of 64 constituencies and gaining 47 percent in the proportional part of the race.
However, the opposition won a majority in seven out of 64 municipalities - the cities and towns of Batumi, Zugdidi, Martvili, Chkhorotsku, Tsalenjikha, Rustavi and Senaki.