TBILISI, DFWatch — The governing Georgian Dream coalition suggests bringing forward a planned reform to give the president power to immediately dissolve parliament and announce a new parliamentary election.
The powers are part of a package of constitutional
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has vetoed the coming into force of a law on amnesty, and sent his own version of the law to parliament.
Speaker of Parliament Davit Usupashvili on Friday said the legislative body has received the president’s
TBILISI, DFWatch — President Mikheil Saakashvili will veto a planned mass amnesty passed by parliament, arguing that the new government is about to release dangerous people into society.
The amnesty was passed by parliament December 22 after much
The leader of a business chamber in Georgia says he helped the previous government try to bankrupt Cartu Bank, which was owned by current Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili.
Giorgi Isakadze, Chair of Georgia’s Small and Medium Enterprises Association,
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia says public money was spent on campaign rallies for President Mikheil Saakashvili’s National Movement party last September, which is illegal, and that documents were falsified to cover it up.
The party
TBILISI, DFWatch — Construction of the Kars-Akhalkalaki railway will continue as before.
Irakli Kovzanadze, Chair of Georgia’s Partnership Foundation, said this in Azerbaijan on Wednesday, during a visit there by Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili and
TBILISI, DFWatch — The supervisory board of Georgia’s Public Broadcaster Wednesday elected a new director as replacement for Giorgi Chanturia, who unexpectedly resigned almost two weeks ago.
The board chose Giorgi Baratashvili, who has a background from different
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili Tuesday met the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, during an official visit to Baku.
The two held a closed meeting which took place at Aliyev’s Zagulba palace.
Also present were Georgia’s Foreign
TBILISI, DFWatch — An earthquake hit Georgia Wednesday morning; the second one in three days.
Two strong quakes were felt early morning December 26, at 02:44 and 03:00 am.
According to the seismic monitoring center, the strength of the earthquakes were 5.5 and
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office has concluded an investigation of a handful of videos showing torture of prisoners which sparked protests two weeks before the election in October, 2012.
The videos were published September 19, and showed