TBILISI, DFWatch–Parliament is ready to listen to the president’s annual address to the nation, but the president may not show up.
Pavle Kublashvili from President Saakashvili’s United National Movement party says that the annual address has not been scheduled.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The governing coalition in Georgia says parliament will listen to President Mikheil Saakashvili’s annual address as soon as a set of recently passed constitutional amendments are signed into law and enforced.
February 8, Saakashvili should have
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili demands that parliament allows him to use his constitutional right to address the nation from parliament.
Thursday, the Georgian leader sent an open letter to MPs calling on them to follow the constitution, which obliges
Tbilisi, DF Watch–Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili welcomes a statement by Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili condemning Friday’s violence in front of the National Library and invites him to a new dialogue.
Saakashvili said he welcomed ‘the fact that the Prime
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili says his party supports constitution changes regarding limiting his powers, but doesn’t support the change which suggests moving parliament back to Tbilisi.
In his speech held at the president’s residence
TBILISI, DFWatch — After violent clashes caused him to change venue for the state of the nation address Friday, President Mikheil Saakashvili held his televised address from his residence.
No one will be able to lock me up in this palace, the president said.
He opened
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili will address the nation from the National Library instead of from parliament.
Saakashvili should have held his annual address on Friday, but the event was postponed by the ruling Georgian Dream coalition.
TBILISI, DFWatch — The president’s annual speech to parliament is postponed indefinitely.
This is a decision made by the ruling coalition. Speaker of Parliament Davit Usupashvili today said consultations had been held and a decision was made to not hold
TBILISI, DFWatch — President Mikheil Saakashvili’s annual address to parliament will take place on February 8, 2013.
“As a result of consultations, a decision was made that the president’s annual speech, defined by the constitution, will take place at 14:00 Friday
When George Washington held the first State of the Union address in the U.S. Congress, there was a debate about where the president should sit so that his official status wouldn’t be diminished, but at the same time wasn’t looking down on Congress, in order to visually