Saturday, January 17, 2026

Sharp exchanges as government lays out its plans to parliament

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Irakli Gharibashvili in parliament Tuesday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Parliament plans to confirm the new government on Wednesday. On Tuesday, parliamentary committees listened to speeches by the minister candidates and asked them questions.

A sharp exchange developed between Prime Minister candidate Irakli

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Twelve new judges elected in Georgia

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Chairman of the Georgian Supreme Court, Kote Kublashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s High Council of Justice on Tuesday elected 12 new judges.

There were 59 candidates present at the session. Each candidate needed at least ten votes out of the 13 members of the council in order to be elected. 41 out of the 59 candidates

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Georgian PM: Organizers of Khurcha shooting will be punished

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New Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Acting Interior Minister Irakli Gharibashvili promises that those who ordered and organized the so-called Khurcha incident in 2008 will be identified and punished.

A few weeks ago, police detained two former government officials on suspicion of having organized

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Gharibashvili names new Georgian government

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Irakli Gharibashvili presented a government with the same people as before, except for new Interior Minister Alexandre Chikaidze. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian prime minister in waiting Irakli Gharibashvili on Monday named his new cabinet.

It lists the same people as before the inauguration of Giorgi Margvelashvili, with the exception of Gharibashvili’s post as interior minister which will be

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Two protests during Georgian inauguration

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Activists demand a stop in large hydro power dams that threaten villages and the environment. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Two separate demonstrations went on on the street outside during the inauguration of Giorgi Margvelashvili in the yard of the old parliament building in Tbilisi on Sunday.

Labor party leader Shalva Natelashvili rallied supporters and said that the

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