The FINANCIAL — According to Civil Georgia, the ruling National Movement Party said it would not run in MP by-elections in the Tbilisi’s two single-mandate constituencies.
MP by-elections are scheduled for November 3 in the Vake and Didube single-mandate constituencies – the opposition’s two strongholds.
According to Civil Georgia, by-elections became required in the Tbilisi’s Didube and Vake single-mandate constituencies after the two majoritarian MPs from those districts – the New Rights Party's Davit Saganelidze and Davit Gamkrelidze, respectively – have renounced their MP mandates in protest to what they called fraudulent May 21 parliamentary elections. Total of twelve opposition politicians renounced their MP mandates.
Mikheil Machavariani of the ruling party, who is the Parliament’s Vice-Speaker, said that the National Movement has decided not to run in order to give the opposition parties more opportunity for endorsing their representatives in the 150-seat legislative body in which the ruling party has 119 seats.
The New Rights Party, which won polls in those two constituencies, as well as its partner parties from the opposition coalition, are not running in these by-elections either. The Republican Party and Labor Party have also refused to run.
Total of nine parties appealed the Central Election Commission (CEC) for registration to run in the by-elections: Christian-Democratic Party; Industrialist Party; the Georgian Troupe; On Our Own; National-Democratic Party; Our Country; the Georgian Politics; Georgia’s Freedom-Democratic party; the National Party of Georgian Radical-Democrats.
After these are parties are registered by CEC, they will then nominate majoritarian MP candidates.
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