Georgian President submits candidates for Election Commission to Parliament
Zourabichvili submitted the new candidates as the Parliament had rejected previous ones on December 22. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili on Tuesday submitted a list of candidates for the positions of the head and member of the Central Election Commission to the Parliament and announced a competition for one position.
The proposed candidates for the position of the CEC Chair are Giorgi Shaishmelashvili and Nanuli Bebia and the candidates for the one vacant CEC member position - Rusudan Kurdiani and Tamaz Poladashvili, the Presidential Administration said.
Zourabichvili submitted the new candidates as the Parliament had rejected previous ones on December 22.
CEC head will be elected for a five-year term if his/her candidacy is supported by 100 MPs in the 150-member state legislative body. In case none of the candidates gains such support, 76 votes will be enough to appoint the CEC head for a six-month term.
The Administration of the President of Georgia submitted its list of candidates for the positions of the Central Election Commission (CEC) head and members to the parliament earlier today.
Georgian Parliament on Thursday failed to elect the Chair and members of the country’s Central Election Commission after the candidates proposed by President Salome Zourabichvili did not receive support from MPs.
The Georgian Parliament on Thursday adopted amendments to the country’s electoral code in their penultimate reading as part of the conditions set by the European Union in June for granting it the membership candidate status.
The evaluations of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe on electoral amendments implemented by Georgian authorities with the goal of gaining the European Union membership candidate status are “clearly positive”, Givi Mikanadze, a ruling Georgian Dream party MP, said on Monday.
The Georgian Parliament will officially resume its work on February 7 for the spring session, the press office of the legislative body said on Tuesday.
Georgia’s electoral reform was discussed on Monday in a meeting between Giorgi Kalandarishvili, the Chair of the Central Election Commission, and John Pennell, the Mission Director for the United States Agency for International Development in the Caucasus.