TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Georgian Dream bloc wants to keep having a relatively low threshold for amending the constitution and to give parliament longer time to work out a budget before it leads to a government’s dismissal and a new election.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishivli calls on President Mikheil Saakashvili to set a date for the presidential election.
Representatives of the president’s administration told DF Watch that the president’s opinion about this issue is still unknown.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Dream coalition has chosen Minister of Education Giorgi Margvelashvili as its candidate for president in the upcoming election.
“Giorgi Margvelashvili has all good skills to be a president,” Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said at
TBILISI, DFWatch–Members of the two main political blocs in Georgia are discussing who might be their candidate for the presidential election in October, 2013. Both plan to hold a ballot to select their candidate.
In a recent survey conducted by the National
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Dream coalition will name its candidate for president next week.
At the end of the week, the coalition’s council will decide who will represent it in the upcoming presidential election.
Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili on Tuesday
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is considering using biometric information to identify voters in the next election.
A cross-faction group in parliament presented a proposal on Monday about how to prepare the voters’ list in the future.
Those behind the project
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Dream coalition’s candidates have won the by-election in all three districts, according to preliminary results after counting of votes in all precincts.
The Central Election Commission on Sunday published the results of counting votes
TBILISI, DFWatch–Results published by the Central Election Commission after Saturday’s by-election in Georgia show that all three Georgian Dream coalition candidates are leading.
According to the CEC results, Tamar Kordzaia, Georgian Dream coalition candidate
TBILISI, DFWatch–In Georgia, a by-election is underway in three election districts. Turnout is largest in Baghdati, a town in western Georgia, where 21 percent (5 000) voters already had cast their vote by noon.
10 percent voted in Nadzaladevi, a district in Tbilisi,
TBILISI, DFWatch–By-elections are held three places in Georgia on Saturday to fill seats in parliament that became vacant as the Ivanishvili government took power last year.
The three election districts are, Nadzaladevi in the capital Tbilisi, and Samtredia