Former ambassadors, MPs join Elene Khoshtaria’s Droa party
Elene Khoshtaria’s political party Droa presented its new members yesterday. Photo: on.ge.
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Georgia’s former ambassadors to the US Batu Kutelia and David Sikharulidze, as well as former MP Nino Goguadze have joined a political party Droa founded by former leader of the European Georgia political party Elene Khoshtaria.
Khoshtaria presented several new members of the party at Peace Bridge in central Tbilisi late yesterday and stated that the ‘people are united around the idea and not a single person.’
The party is the unity of a free, professional people,” Khoshtaria said.
Khoshtaria has been nominated as a joint candidate for the head of Tbilisi City Assembly by the United National Movement, European Georgia, Girchi-More Freedom and Droa opposition parties in upcoming, October 2 municipal elections.
She left the European Georgia opposition party back in December 2020, shortly after the October 2020 parliamentary elections, to create a new political movement.
Khoshtaria has refused to take up her parliamentary mandate she received via the party list of the European Georgia opposition party.
She said that the October 2020 parliamentary elections were fabricated by the ruling Georgian Dream party and she refused to enter the state legislature in protest.
Girchi-More Freedom, European Georgia and Droa will also nominate joint candidates for Tbilisi City Assembly in the coming hours, while the United National Movement will present individual candidates.
Member of the Georgian Parliament and a former leader of the European Georgia opposition party Elene Khoshtaria has created a new political force Droa (eng. It's Time) which aims to expose corrupt officials, abusers, thieves-in-law and those involved in nepotism and who have ties to Russia.
Tsotne Koberidze from the Girchi-More Freedom political party will be a joint candidate for vice Tbilisi Mayor of four political parties in the October 2 municipal elections. The United National Movement opposition party, European Georgia, Girchi-More Freedom and Elene Khoshtaria’s Droa political movement had agreed to present joint candidates for Tbilisi mayor, head of Tbilisi City Assembly and Tbilisi vice mayor.
The European Georgia, Girchi - More Freedom and Movement Droa will nominate joint majoritarian candidates in Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi for the upcoming October 2 local municipal elections on August 15. Droa movement Leader Elene Khoshtaria stated that the municipal elections are ‘special elections, which is essentially a referendum,’ noting that the opposition understands its responsibility before the Georgian population to propose the choice which will ‘give them [Georgian citizens] faith.’
One of the main faces of the European Georgia opposition party, Elene Khoshtaria, has left the party and announced the creation of a new political force.