Friday, December 5, 2025

Local government reform modified after criticism from patriarch

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Speaker of Parliament Davit Usupashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Speaker of Parliament Davit Usupashvili has managed to convince the government to amend a disputed passage in a draft bill about local government reform, as promised.

The government prepared a draft law to regulate the country’s territorial

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Georgian patriarch against local government reform

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Ilia II, Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian parliament has postponed the adoption of a landmark bill that will drastically change local government, after the draft Self-Governance Code was harshly criticized by the influential head of the Georgian Church.

The bill should have been

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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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Administrative-territorial reform – a taboo in Georgian politics

David Losaberidze is project coordinator at the Caucasus Institute for Peace Democracy and Development.

A lot of reforms have been carried out in the country during the first two decades after Georgia’s independence in 1991. Although some of them were rather controversial and contradictory, they led to significant changes in various spheres of Georgia’s social life, writes David Losaberidze,

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