Lelo re-creates faction in parliament as UNM MP joins
Businessman Dilar Khabuliani won a seat in the state legislature via a party list of the United National Movement - United Opposition election bloc in the 2020 elections.
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The Lelo opposition party has been able to re-create a faction in parliament as the MP from the United National Movement - United Opposition election bloc Dilar Khabuliani decided to join.
Seven MPs are mandatory for the formation of a faction in the 150-member state legislature, while Lelo was left with six members after founder of the Lelo party Mamuka Khazaradze decided to leave the legislative body in mid-November 2021.
Now the Lelo faction will be composed of Khabuliani, Badri Japariidze, Anna Natsvlishvili, David Usupashvili, Salome Samadashvili, Armaz Akhvlediani and Shalva Shavgulidze.
Khazaradze requested the suspension of his MP status in protest of what he claims were the ‘fabricated’ results of the recent municipal elections in October.
He is demanding the annulment of the election results.
According to the recent survey by Transparency International Georgia, Khabuliani is among the top seven MPs, along with former MP Khazaradze and Japaridze, who holds business assets in the largest number of companies.
The organization says that Khabuliani holds business assets in 10 companies.
Transparency International Georgia (TI Georgia) says that the undeclared business assets of Georgian MPs and the activities incompatible to their status remain a problem in the 10th convocation of the state legislature.
The Georgian parliament has suspended the MP status of Lelo party founder Mamuka Khazaradze and leader of the Girchi-More Freedom opposition party Zurab Japaridze earlier today with 79 votes in the 150-member state legislature, per their request.
Lelo opposition party leader Mamuka Khazaradze has officially requested parliament earlier today to suspend his MP status to ‘continue the fight on the street’ for the annulment of the recent municipal election results.
The leader of the Lelo opposition party, Mamuka Khazaradze, has said that he will move to the western Georgian town of Tsalenjikha, and assist the newly appointed opposition mayor. Khazaradze announced his decision while delivering his speech at the opposition rally in the city of Zugdidi last evening.