TBILISI, DFWatch–The Republican Party wants to have a U.S. military base in Georgia before the country becomes a full member of NATO.
This was one of the statements made by Republican Party members during a debate on Rustavi 2 Tuesday evening,
Politics
Should Georgia’s foreign policy alignment be defined in the Constitiution?
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two proposals to define Georgia’s foreign policy alignment in the Constitution were postponed by a parliament committee because not enough MPs showed up. The rebellious opposition leader who started the debate now claims parliament has violated election rules.
Free Democrats promises to decriminalize all drug use
TBILISI, DFWatch–Irakli Alasania’s Free Democrats promises a liberal drug policy and the decriminalization of all forms of drugs if they come to power.
But the punishment for drug dealing will be tougher, the party’s healthcare strategist Nikoloz Pruidze
GD nominates candidates for parliament from Tbilisi districts
TBILISI, DFWatch–The ruling Georgian Dream party on Monday nominated its majoritarian candidates in most of Tbilisi’s 21 electoral districts.
The exception was the downtown Mtatsminda district, where GD refrained from nominating a candidate to support
Election ad featuring Putin causes outcry in Georgia
TBILISI, DFWatch–A ten seconds long election video has caused a strong reaction from Georgia’s political establishment and calls for using legal means to stop the party behind it.
The provocative advertisement ran on the Public Broadcaster’s Channel 1
Saturday night
National Forum politician's home broken into
TBILISI, DFWatch–The home of a candidate for parliament from the National Forum was broken into Thursday night, a few days after the party’s office was robbed.
Tamar Tsikhiseli told journalists that the burglars didn’t steal anything. She thinks the people
President meets group who proposed referendum to define marriage
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Giorgi Margvelashvili will Tuesday meet the Georgians who proposed holding a referendum about defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Giorgi Abashishvili, head of the president’s administration,
Former UNM members join New Rightists in bloc called 'New Choice'
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two political parties formed by ex-National Movement members together with an opposition party without representatives in parliament on Friday launched a new election bloc for the upcoming parliamentary election.
The name of the new
GD names Shevardnadze era minister as candidate for parliament
TBILISI, DFWatch–Koba Narchemashvili, who was interior minister at the moment when Eduard Shevardnadze was deposed as president in the Rose Revolution, was Tuesday nominated by Georgian Dream as majoritarian candidate for parliament.
As commander
Republican Party tops reject offer to join Georgian Dream
TBILISI, DFWatch–The leader of the Republican Party says he and other party tops have received an offer from the ruling Georgian Dream to abandon their own party and join them ahead of the election, but they rejected the offer.
In an interview with the newspaper