14th MP leaves ruling Georgian Dream party
Erkvania is the 14th MP to leave the GD since the rejection of the bill on November 14. Photo: IPN.ge.
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MP of the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party Aleksandre Erkvania has announced he is leaving the ruling party, citing the rejection of the GD-proposed election bill as one of the reasons.
Erkvania said that neither the head of GD ruling party, Bidzina Ivanishvili not the team had consulted with him before making the decision.
Erkvania is the 14th MP to leave the GD since the rejection of the bill on November 14, which offered the early-transition to a fully proportional electoral system from 2020 instead of scheduled 2024.
Sophio Katsarava, the former chairperson of the foreign relations committee of the parliament of Georgia has resigned as MP. “Today I have made a very difficult decision, however, from my viewpoint, this is the only right decision”, she announced on Facebook.
Three MPs of the Conservative party have left the Georgian Dream ruling party after the parliament rejected the ruling party proposed election bill yesterday on the transition to a fully proportional electoral system from 2020.
Giorgi Begadze is the ninth MP to leave the Georgian Dream (GD) ruling party after the recent rejection of the GD-proposed election bill. Begadze is the majoritarian MP of the ruling party in Rustavi, a town close to the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.
Vice Parliament Speaker of Georgia Tamar Chugoshvili, MPs Irina Pruidze, Giorgi Mosidze, Dimitri Tskitishvili, Tamar Khulordava, Sophio Katsarava and Zaza Khutsishvili have left the Georgian Dream ruling party after the party proposed election bill was scrapped earlier today. The bill which offered the conduct of 2020 parliamentary elections with a fully proportional voting system and a zero threshold has been voted for by 101 MPs instead of mandatory 113 earlier today.