PM claims ruling party can “easily” secure constitutional majority after opinion poll

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, who leads the ruling Georgian Dream party's electoral office, on Thursday said the ruling party could “easily” secure ​​a constitutional majority in the parliamentary elections scheduled for October 26,  after a survey by Tbilisi-based Georgian Opinion Research Business International put the approval rating of the party at 59.3 percent on Wednesday.

I recalculated and according to the GORBI survey, we have 107 mandates [in the Parliament], while the opposition - 43. This means that according to these data, we are only six mandates short of the constitutional majority. I think this shortcoming can be easily eliminated. We can easily receive a constitutional majority”, Kobakhidze claimed at a press briefing held in the office of the ruling party.

“The opposition does not recognise the studies, but one after the other they unite to somehow try to overcome the five percent electoral threshold. If they do not have a problem with crossing the threshold, why are they uniting one after the other?! In fact, they themselves know very well what a situation is”, the PM noted.

The poll, commissioned by Imedi TV channel, was conducted nationwide through face-to-face interviews between July 24 and August 4, with a total of 1,700 respondents, with a margin of error of three percent.