Friday, December 5, 2025

Poll shows Georgian Dream winning Tbilisi mayoral race

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Georgian Dream’s candidate for Tbilisi mayor, Davit Narmania, who currently is Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–In a new poll, 52 percent of Tbilisians say they would vote for the Georgian Dream candidate for mayor if the local elections were held tomorrow.

Four percent say they won’t vote for anyone, and 18 percent haven’t decided yet.

Another source

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Mayoral race in Tbilisi starts with bickering

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Encumbent Tbilisi Mayor Gigi Ugulava. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A dispute has developed between the current Tbilisi mayor and the likely new mayor.

The dispute has to do with infrastructure projects in Tbilisi which the encumbent mayor claims the candidate for new mayor, who is now infrastructure minister, has

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Local government reform to involve people more

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Davit Narmania, Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The goal of a new reform of local government is to involve locals in solving their own problems, like bad roads and failing water supply.

The Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure on Monday laid out its new decentralization plan and

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Reflections on Georgia’s 2013 draft budget

Davit Narmania is executive director of Caucasian Economical and Social Research Institute.

Georgian government October two presented draft for state budget adjusted to the interest of the United National Movement to the Georgian parliament. But now election winner Georgian Dream awaits the draft in parliament. This force’s election promises is radically different

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Analysis of 2012 State Budget and Elections

Davit Narmania is executive director of Caucasian Economical and Social Research Institute.

Georgia’s 2012 budget is significantly different from the 2011 budget due to it being an election year. The expenditure part of the budget is particularly interesting. There are several expenditures which directly or indirectly aim to increase voters’ content, and this will

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Election-year budget or election budget?

An election year budget is seen by economists is significantly different from a non-election year budget. In this regard, the budget expenditure is very interesting, which represents the government expenditure policy in the forms of various activities. In the budget expenditure part we see expenses, which can be directly or non-directly considered as to increase … Read more