Ruling Georgian Dream party accepts opposition parties’ challenge to hold debates ahead of parliamentary elections
Giorgi Vashadze, the leader of Strategy Agmashenebeli challenged Gakharia to a party debate to the Georgian Public Broadcaster on October 15, while Lelo party leader Mamuka Khazaradze offered Georgian dream party leader and founder Bidzina Ivanishvili to participate in the debates to discuss how Georgia can overcome the current economic crisis. Photo: Georgian Dream/Facebook.
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The ruling Georgian Dream party has accepted the challenge of the opposition parties Lelo and Strategy Agmashenebeli to participate in debates in the coming days.
Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia said political debates would be held between the ruling GD party and opposition leaders, Mamuka Khazaradze and Giorgi Vashadze.
Gakharia noted that he has never avoided meaningful discussions, ‘especially with these gentlemen’.
In general, political debates, including party debates, are one of the most important elements in the election process. We must also keep in mind that debates should be meaningful and based on truth”, Gakharia said.
Giorgi Vashadze, the leader of Strategy Agmashenebeli challenged Gakharia to a party debate to the Georgian Public Broadcaster on October 15, while Lelo party leader Mamuka Khazaradze offered Georgian dream party leader and founder Bidzina Ivanishvili to participate in the debates to discuss how Georgia can overcome the current economic crisis.
The ruling Georgian Dream party received 6,495,650 million GEL in election contributions last month, while the opposition Lelo party, which was founded by co-founders of TBC bank Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze, received 1, 312,590 GEL, the State Audit Office reports.
The ruling Georgian Dream party founder and chairman Bidzina Ivanishvili said at the presentation of party list and program earlier today that Georgia has never had such a long record of stable, peaceful and democratic development since the restoration of independence in 1990s.
Election polls commissioned by the opposition-minded TV channel Mtavari Arkhi say the ruling Georgian Dream party will receive 25 per cent of votes in the upcoming October 31 parliamentary elections.
Starting today, the 59 political parties that have registered with the Central Election Commission (CEC) to run in the 2020 Georgian parliamentary elections can begin their election campaigns.
The ruling Georgian Dream party has spent 4.3 million GEL on election commercials between September 1 and September 21.
The ruling Georgian Dream party says that the ‘radical opposition’ which has ‘zero chance of winning the parliamentary elections’ has plans to release deepfakes on election day, on Saturday.Deepfake videos are inauthentic videos that depict people and voices that resemble their counterparts in reality.Kobakhidze says that the videos, which may depict members of the ruling party, including party founder Bidzina Ivanishvili, will aim to mislead voters.