Former parliamentary speaker’s party nominates mayoral candidate
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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.
Shergelashvili, who is a former member of the Republican Party, was actively involved in the local governments’ reform initiated by the Georgian Dream government in 2013-2014.
I have 20 years of experience in the local governments’ filed and I can offer a concrete plan to the residents of Tbilisi how to get the city healthy and comfortable to live in,” Shergelashvili told the audience at today’s nomination of his candidacy.
Shergelashvili, together with Usupashvili and several others quit the Republican Party shortly after the 2016 Parliamentary Elections, in which the Republican Party failed to overcome the mandatory 5percent threshold to have representatives in the 150-member legislative body.
As it was reported, the reason the leading figures of the party left was because of a controversy over the party’s future.
The Municipal Elections 2017 will take place in Georgia in about four months by the end of the third week of October.
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.
Georgian Dream ruling team has named its candidate in Tbilisi for the upcoming local elections in the autumn.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili who is also the head of the Georgian Dream-Democratic Movement has officially named Kakha Kaladze as the ruling team’s candidate in Tbilisi for the upcoming local elections in the autumn.
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.
Two non-parliamentary opposition parties – Democratic Movement and Free Georgia – have named a joint candidate for Tbilisi Mayor for the municipal elections this October.