Saturday, August 2, 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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UNM may boycott parliament sittings until Oct. 8 elections

Before declaring their boycott,Earlier, during the plenary session several MPs from both sides participated in the verbal squabble UNM  squabble preceded
The boycott declared by the UNM  was preceded by a squabble during the plenary session.

Tbilisi, DFWatch – United National Movement has announced its decision to suspend its activities in the parliament until all involved in violent incident in Kortskheli were punished.

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Olympic champion's house riddled with bullets

Olympic judo champion Zurab Zviadauri says his house was hit by automatic rifle fire early New Year's Day. In the 2012 election, he campaigned for Georgian Dream and now represents the coalition in parliament. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The house of an Olympic champion who represents the Georgian Dream coalition in parliament was riddled with automatic rifle fire the early morning on New Year’s Day.

The shooting happened at 1 am on Tuesday in Akhmeta, a town about 150

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Opposition takes measures against harassment of athletes

Sports minister Lado Vardzelashvili says there is no harassment of athletes, but offers them the advice that if they get active in politics, it will hurt their careers. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The opposition Georgian Dream movement is campaigning to defend athletes against government harassment, but the sports minister says there is no harassment.

Over 130 athletes have signed a petition organized by the opposition

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Georgian athletes clash, this time in politics

Olympic judo champion Zurab Zviadauri and his cousin, also Olympic champion, are supporting opposing sides in the parliamentary election in their town Akhmeta, in eastern Georgia. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – A Georgian Olympic judo champion says a sports hall named after him in Eastern Georgia was renamed and his photos taken down from the walls after he decided to support the opposition Georgian Dream coalition; however the governor of the

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Minister in Georgia wanted to electrocute opposition athlete

Sports minister Lado Vardzelashvili is calling in his country's leading athletes to secure their loyalty, an opposition ahtlete claims. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – An athlete in Georgia claims that a government minister said he wanted to electrocute him as punishment for joining the opposition.

The would-be victim, 2004 Olympic judo champion Zurab Zviadauri, joined the Georgian Dream movement of billionaire

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Construction company says government behind hassle

Zurab Zviadauri anticipated trouble with authorities when he joined the opposition, and therefore transferred his shares in a construction company to a friend. He believes the government was behind a customer protest action Monday. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Monday the offices of a construction company in Georgia was invaded by a group of people demanding that the company completes construction work on flats that many customers have invested in.

The office invaders claimed to be relatives of customers

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Another sportsman goes into politics in Georgia

Olympic judo champion Zurab Zviadauri has joined the opposition Georgian Dream movement. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Another Olympic champion has been added to the list of Georgian sportsmen taking part in the political life of Georgia, as an Olympic judo champion joined Bidzina Ivanishvili’s opposition Georgian Dream movement.

After a brief break, the issue of

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