Georgian President announces approximate date for municipal elections
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The Municipal Elections 2017 will take place in Georgia in about four months by the end of the third week of October.
President Giorgi Margvelashvili announced the news today saying the exact date will be made known later but political parties will now know the approximate election calendar so they can plan their election activities accordingly.
Margvelashvili added that the exact election day will be announced 60 days before the elections, which is the end of August.
The Central Election Commission has been given almost 40 million GEL to organise and hold the elections.
The United National Movement (UNM) opposition, the party which ran Georgia in 2003-2012, named its top two candidates in Tbilisi for the upcoming local elections in the autumn.
Georgia’s former Parliament Speaker and ex-leader of the opposition Republican Party, David Usupashvili, presented a new, centrist movement today, named Movement for Building.
Two non-parliamentary opposition parties, the Republicans and the Free Democrats, may unite under one election bloc for the 2017 municipal elections.
Georgia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) will be given almost 40 million GEL to organise and hold the Municipal Elections 2017.
Georgia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) announced today that they are ready to hold upcoming local elections which will take place at the end of October.
Parliament of Georgia has overridden President Giorgi Margvelashvili’s veto on the planned changes in the Self-Government Code, referring to the rejection of a self-governing status to 7 cities out of 12.
Four opposition parties have called on the pro-western opposition, a civil organizations and active members of society to present joint candidates for the upcoming local elections.
The Movement for Building opposition, created by Georgia’s former Parliament Speaker David Usupashvili, has named ex-Deputy Infrastructure Minister Tengiz Shergelashvili as its mayoral candidate in capital Tbilisi.
The Alliance of Patriots, one of the three political parties that made it into the new Parliament of Georgia, has named one of its party leaders, Irma Inashvili, as its candidate for Tbilisi Mayor for the municipal elections this October.
OSCE observers who have arrived in Georgia to monitor the country’s local elections next month stated they are interested how democratic the election process will be and not the outcomes of the race.
Georgia’s Minister of Internal Affairs Giorgi Mgebrishvili stated today that close cooperation between the Interior Ministry and the Central Election Commission (CEC) for the upcoming local elections is one of the key preconditions for a safe and transparent election environment.
Georgia’s Interior Minister Giorgi Mgebrishvili has issued a special decree which envisages additional obligations for police staff ahead of the upcoming local elections.