TBILISI, DFWatch – President Saakashvili has signed a set of constitutional changes which allow his main competitor to participate in parliamentary and presidential elections.
The changes will allow a citizen of an EU country, who is born in Georgia and has lived here
TBILISI, DFWatch – DF Watch sat down with U.S. Ambassador to Georgia, John Bass, for a conversation about the situation in the country.
For the latest two months about twenty cases were observed, when government representatives interrupted media activity and in some
TBILISI, DFWatch – One of President Mikheil Saakashvili’s top officials says he was taken by surprise by an open letter from opposition billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili yesterday, in which he said that he will not make use of a new tailor-made constitutional change
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian parliament today passed constitutional changes meant to let opposition billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili participate in the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections.
Ivanishvili, Georgia’s richest, decided to go into politics
TBILISI, DFWatch – The parliament in Georgia Tuesday once more modified a set of constitutional changes which were meant to let Saakashvili’s main competitor participate in elections.
At the second hearing, Vakhtang Khmaladze, legal expert and representative of the
TBILISI, DFWatch – Lawmakers in Georgia have finally achieved consensus for constitutional changes which will give opposition billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili the right to participate in elections, without being a Georgian citizen.
The amendment was originally proposed
TBILISI, DFWatch – Lawmakers in Georgia have temporarily given EU citizens political rights in the country for the next three years. The rights will expire on January 1, 2014.
The constitutional amendment is widely seen as a measure to allow opposition billionaire
TBILISI, DFWatch – The opposition billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili is going back to court, in a further effort to be recognized as a Georgian citizen.
Authorities annulled Ivanishvili’s citizenship shortly after he revealed his plans to become a politician in October
TBILISI, DFWatch – The constitutional changes Georgia recently passed which gives EU citizens the right to stand for election will be restricted to only last for three years.
The Christian Democrats party recently suggested constitutional amendments according to
TBILISI, DFWatch – It is still unknown who will be the formal leader of the main opposition movement in Georgia, less than six months before the parliamentary elections.
But there is little doubt that the real leader will be billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, who Saturday