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Parliamentary Elections 2016 – What are the things the government and the opposition cannot agree on?
The appointment of Giorgi Kvirikashvili as the Prime Minister of Georgia and the subsequent change
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The Non-Parliamentary Opposition Inter-Party Group has not addressed us with the request to give them some air time to discuss electoral issues
During his meeting with FactCheck, the member of the Non-Parliamentary Opposition Inter-Party Group
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Will the majoritarian election system be abolished for the 2016 election?
On 28 May 2015, the Constitutional Court of Georgia made a decision in regard to a lawsuit
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Not a single military serviceman was registered in Gardabani for the 2014 municipal elections. This year, there are 700 military servicemen registered...
On 14 January 2016, a representative of the Parliamentary Opposition, Mikheil Machavariani, made
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In terms of elections systems, we proposed two alternatives to the Government of Georgia but they are not taking them into account
On air on Maestro TV, the Secretary General of the New Rights Party, Mamuka Katsitadze, talked
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Distributing wage surpluses in advance in the public structures contradicts the requirements of the acting law
During his speech about the rules of the distribution of bonuses and wage surpluses, the Head of
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Georgia is a unique country which incorporates both majoritarian and proportional list MPs in its unicameral legislative structure
Whilst talking about Georgia’s parliamentary elections system, the Secretary General of the New
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Constitutional amendments about the election system were drafted circumventing the Constitutional Commission
On 5 October 2015, on air on Rustavi 2, the President of Georgia, Giorgi Margvelashvili, discussed
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The state observes neutrality with regard to elections in the Georgian Football Federation
According to the Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs of Georgia, Tariel Khechikashvili, the state
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Ivanishvili has falsified the results of the population census and registered 800,000 Georgians as living in Russia. This was done in order to bring e...
The former President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, discussed the on-going political processes in
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Interpol has changed its methodology which is why Davit Kezerashvili has been removed from the ‘wanted list’ … Yanukovych has been removed from this l...
On 31 July 2015, the Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Gharibashvili, commented upon the issue of
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"They told me in Kutaisi that they were not putting the airport into official operation just because it was built by Saakashvili."
During his speech at the session of the Parliament of Georgia, the Parliamentary Minority MP,
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"In 2014, the cases of using pre-trial detention dropped by 34%... In the years of 2009-2010, the rate of using pre-trial detention was almost 100%."
At the plenary session of the Parliament of Georgia, the Chair of the Human Rights and Civil
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"The amnesty did not cover any violent crimes."
Chairperson of the Human Rights Committee of the Parliament of Georgia, Eka Beselia, on air on
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"When Abkhazia had problems with electricity, we were supplying it with electricity purchased from Russia."
On 12 December 2014, the so-called President of Occupied Abkhazia, Raul Khajimba, stated: "Up until
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