Opposition names joint candidates for Saburtalo and Didube-Chugureti constituencies

The Labour Party has announced it will put forward Irakli Okruashvili as the joint opposition candidate in Saburtalo constituency and Zurab Japaridze in the Didube-Chugureti constituency, announces party leader Shalva Natelashvil.

• Opposition names 6 of 8 joint candidates for Tbilisi in forthcoming parliamentary elections

The opposition has fully agreed on majoritarian candidates in the capital and so we can assume that the regime will lose the capital", Natelashvili said.

He said that this is an unprecedented fact and it will be written with golden letters in the history of Georgia.

• Ruling party reveals its 30 majoritarian candidates for Tbilisi and regions

A declaration on the protection of opposition votes was also adopted today.

Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Georgia on October, 31 2020 to elect the 150 members of parliament.

120 seats in parliament will be distributed based on the votes received in proportional elections, while remaining 30 per the votes received in majoritarian elections.