The FINANCIAL — According to Civil Georgia, constitutional amendments, stipulating new confidence vote for the cabinet after the parliamentary election, will be initiated as part of the agreement with the opposition, Nino Burjanadze, the Parliamentary Chairperson, said on February 11.
A constitutional amendment stipulating that the cabinet resigns automatically after parliamentary election is part of the opposition’s joint memorandum listing 17 demands.
“We are starting discussion of these [constitutional amendments], so everyone willing to participate can join,” she said. “So the dialogue is real and the authorities’ readiness for cooperation is very serious and steps that have been undertaken by us recently demonstrate it very well.”
But she also warned that putting forth of new demands and deadlines by the opposition “will only complicate the process” of negotiations. The nine-party opposition coalition reiterated on February 11 that it would not continue talks with the authorities unless tangible results were delivered.
By “tangible results” the opposition is referring to three demands, which are part of the joint memorandum, and which required no time-consuming legislative amendments: the release of, as the opposition describes, “political prisoners” – mainly referring to those arrested during the November 7 unrest and the dismissal of Tamar Kintsurashvili, director general of the Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB), and Levan Tarkhnishvili, chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC).
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