Monday, August 18, 2025

Georgian Dream announces top 15 candidates for parliament – 8 are women

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Tamar Chugoshvili.

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Dream Party on Wednesday announced its top 15 people on the party list for the parliamentary election in October.

The list consists of eight women and seven men. There are no MPs or cabinet members among them. Three of them are deputy ministers.

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Should media be allowed to film inside election precincts?

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Zakaria Kutsnashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s inter-faction group to oversee the election asks the Central Election Commission (CEC) to lift restrictions on the media in election precincts.

Former head of CEC Zurab Kharatishvili last year enforced restrictions on where journalists

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Ivanishvili government tries to clean up campaigning rules

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Zakaria Kutsnashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A new amendment to the election code will require top officials to resign two days after they are registered as candidates in the presidential election.

The new regulations will apply to the prime minister, ministers of autonomous republics

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