TBILISI, DFWatch — The human rights group Freedom House writes in a new report that Georgia is now an electoral democracy.
The group gives Georgia an improved democracy score in its report Freedom in the World 2013, as a consequence of the peaceful transfer
TBILISI, DFWatch — Local supporters of the governing Georgian Dream coalition in a town in western Georgia are on hunger strike for the eighth day demanding that the local mayor resigns.
Organizers plan to hold a demonstration January 16 if their demand is not met.
TBILISI, DFWatch — President Mikheil Saakashvili says he will continue to appoint his party members to bodies under his control.
Saturday, Saakashvili appointed Khatuna Ochiauri, member of parliament (MP) before the last election, as governor of Mtskheta Mtianeti
TBILISI, DFWatch — Friday, another rally was held to demand the resignation of the local government in a small town in eastern Georgia.
The population of Tetritskharo, which lies in the Kvemo Kartli region, doesn’t want the former ruling party to govern their town,
TBILISI, DFWatch — Parliament’s judiciary committee has started reviewing a draft bill which will free former government officials from responsibility for crimes committed while in office.
Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili first announced the idea in the end of
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvil has appointed a former government official who has twice been detained after the change of government as new governor in the Samegrelo region.
Tengiz Gunava used to be Chairman of the General Inspection
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Prosecutor’s Office has forwarded the National Audit Office results of its investigation into the National Movement Party’s eleven rallies last September.
The rallies were held September 8 in different regions of the country to show off support.
TBILISI, DFWatch — Parliament will go back to work from mid-January in order to start work on a bill about constitutional amendments which will prevent the president from dismissing the government.
Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili’s government proposes to change
TBILISI, DFWatch — A group of supporters of the former government have started gathering signatures in support of President Mikheil Saakashvili.
The group has published a petition on its Facebook page which says that according to the constitution, Mikheil Saakashvili
TBILISI, DFWatch — Five years after the last presidential election in Georgia, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) claim that they have gathered 800 000 signatures in support of a demand that President Saakashvili should resign.
Georgian Dream, the new ruling party,