Opposition on ruling party’s majoritarian candidates: ‘symbols of a bankrupt political force’
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The opposition says that the ruling party’s majoritarian candidates, who have been nominated earlier today, have been selected according to their ‘obedience to the founder and the head of the ruling party Bidzina Ivanishvili’ and that ‘they are symbols of a bankrupt political force.’
United National Movement opposition MP Roman Gitsiridze says that the ruling party’s list of 30 majoritarian candidates is composed of ‘former official-bureaucrats, the MPs who have done nothing over the past four years and the corrupt businessmen who want to be in parliament to benefit their own businesses.’
The list is what failure would look like if it had a human face,” Gotsiridze said.
UNM MP Salome Samadashvili stated that the list ‘is the face of a bankrupt political force.’
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The ruling party says that the opposition has ‘zero chances’ to win the elections.
Ivanishvili said the opposition’s recent refusal to vote for the constitutional changes has ‘once again revealed that it is a force [that wants to take revenge] and their main goal is to grab power.’
The ruling Georgian Dream party has nominated all 30 of its majoritarian candidates for the upcoming October parliamentary elections, both for the eight constituencies of the capital Tbilisi and the regions. The elections in the autumn will be held in a different manner, with 120 MPs elected per the party-list based electoral system and the remaining 30 per the majoritarian electoral model. Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia said that the elections will be held ‘in full line with democratic standards and Georgian Dream will celebrate a victory in a fair fight.’
Eighteen opposition parties, who participated in the election talks with the ruling Georgian Dream party mediated by the diplomatic corps, continue to demand the ruling party ‘fully abide’ by the March 8 election agreement and release co-founder of the opposition-minded TV channel Mtavari Arkhi Giorgi Rurua.
The Georgian parliament is discussing amendments to the country’s electoral code which come following the adoption of the election bill on June 29.
Georgian opposition parties have named six of eight joint majoritarian candidates for Tbilisi in the upcoming parliamentary elections in the Autumn.
The Republican Party, which is the oldest political party in Georgia founded back in 1978, has been denied registration for the October parliamentary elections by the Central Election Commission (CEC).
Tbilisi City Court has allowed the registration of the oldest political party in Georgia-the Republican Party, for the October parliamentary elections after the Georgian Central Election Commission (CEC) denied the registration for late submission of mandatory documentation.
The leader of the European Georgia opposition party Gigi Ugulava has urged opposition parties to nominate joint majoritarian candidates in 22 regional constituencies for the upcoming parliamentary elections in October.
The ruling party will keep Giorgi Gakharia as its candidate for prime minister because of his high level of professionalism and patriotism, as well as his excellent leadership and management skills. Archil Talakvadze will again serve as the parliament speaker as well.
The Georgian Dream ruling party has presented its party list to the country’s Central Election Commission earlier today, stating that it has ‘all resources’ to take at least 100 seats in the 150-member parliament. The Executive Secretary of the Georgian Dream Irakli Kobakhidze says that ‘we have expectations to receive more than 50 per cent of votes’ in the October 31 elections, ‘which will allow us to have 30 majoritarian MPs and 70 MPs elected via the party-list.’