Giorgi Gakharia (left) being nominated by Bidzina Ivanishvili on Tuesday. (Georgian Dream Facebook)
Controversial Georgian Interior Minister Giorgi Gakharia is slated to become the country’s next prime minister, the fifth under the rule of Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Georgian Dream party. [Read more…]
Mamuka Bakhtadze (Facebook)
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has announced his resignation in a post on Facebook. According to Georgian Dream officials, his successor will be announced on Tuesday. [Read more…]
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Vera Gogokhia is a civic activist and founder of You for Democracy, an NGO supporting youth activism in Georgia. She is a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy where she is exploring ways to bridge the gap between young people and political parties.
As Georgia transitions to a new electoral system, it’s up to young people to seize the opportunity to make Georgia a better place. [Read more…]
Mamuka Khazaradze. (Kavkasia TV)
The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office has charged two of the founders of TBC Bank Group, the former chair of the board Mamuka Khazaradze, and former deputy chair, Badri Japaridze, with laundering almost $17,000,000. [Read more…]
Russian Duma MP Sergey Gavrilov addressing the Georgian parliament. (1TV)
The appearance of a Russian Duma MP in the Georgian Parliamentary chair seat has triggered protests across Georgia as politicians from both opposition and ruling parties condemned the action. Sergey Gavrilov, who was escorted out of parliament, warned that ‘negotiations on humanitarian-economic issues between the two countries may fail’ due to the incident. [Read more…]
Bidzina Ivanishvili (Mari Nikuradze / OC Media)
The chair of the ruling Georgian Dream Party, Bidzina Ivanishvili, is the most negatively viewed politician in Georgia, according to a new poll by the National Democratic Institute. [Read more…]
Shota Kincha is a staff writer at OC Media.
On the eve of the 19 May by-elections in eight municipalities and for a parliamentary seat in Tbilisi’s Mtatsminda District, the Georgian Dream party, chaired by Georgia’s informal ruler Bidzina Ivanishvili, faces a potential new rival that could potentially mobilise the party’s estranged base — the Tbilisi elite. [Read more…]
A still-forming group in parliament led by former Georgian Dream member Eka Beselia could upset the political landscape in Georgia. With 2020 parliamentary elections on the horizon, this new group poses a potential threat to both billionaire former prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili’s ruling party as well as the main opposition. [Read more…]
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The ruling Georgian Dream Party has lost its constitutional majority in parliament after three MPs left the party and the parliamentary majority grouping over parliament’s failure to pass two bills. [Read more…]
Salome Zurabishvili (Mari Nikuradze /OC Media)
Georgia’s President Salome Zurabishvili has found herself at odds with the ruling Georgian Dream party over their decision to deny her a permanent seat on the country’s new National Security Council (NSC). Meanwhile, a former deputy secretary of the NSC told OC Media that this was not the biggest problem with the new council, and warned of the ‘excessive powers’ it’s new head may wield. [Read more…]
