Former parliamentary speaker’s party nominates mayoral candidate

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.