Friday, December 5, 2025

Margvelashvili will address parliament on Friday

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President Giorgi Margvelashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–President Giorgi Margvelashvili will address parliament on November 14 at noon.

The address will be held at the beginning at a plenary session and be followed by an address of the speaker of parliament.

November 5, right after the prime minister

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Georgia's president pardons 88 prisoners

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President Giorgi Margvelashvili has pardoned 463 prisoners so far this year. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Wednesday was probably the happiest day in the lives of 88 prisoners in Georgia, as they were allowed to walk free following a presidential pardon. Another 27 got their sentences reduced by half or one third.

The decree by President Giorgi

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Georgian president presents candidates for head of Supreme Court

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Outgoing head of Georgia’s Supreme Court, Kote Kublashvili was a key player in the controversial justice reforms.

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president on Tuesday presented parliament with his two candidates to take over as head of Supreme Court.

This was the second time President Giorgi Margvelashvili presented Nino Bakakuri and Zurab Dzlierishvili as candidates to take over

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Georgia to help Kyrgyzstan get access to the EU market

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Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili (left) and Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev in Istanbul on Monday. (Photo published on Facebook.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–President Giorgi Margvelashvili says the free trade treaty Georgia signed with the EU earlier this year opens opportunities also for other countries to reach the EU market.

He said this while discussing bilateral relations with Kyrgyzstan

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Georgian president no longer to oversee student scholarships

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President of Georgia, Giorgi Margvelashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The government wants to strip the president of the power to set terms for student scholarships and studies abroad.

A new draft law about higher education will if passed let the it be up to the government to confirm the use of student advantages,

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Government wants to reduce president's power as commander in chief

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President Giorgi Margvelashvili with Georgian soldiers in Afghanistan in March, 2014. (Photo by Defense Ministry.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia wants to limit the power of the president as commander in chief.

The draft bill will take away the president’s power to approve the regulation of the Joint Staff, and the head of the Joint Staff will become subordinate

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