Georgia
Georgian President Kavelashvili offers pardons to jailed opposition if they take part in elections
Kavelashvili made the offer amid a boycott of the 2025 local election by numerous opposition parties.
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Georgian opposition party Lelo announces plans to run in local elections
Several opposition parties are boycotting the 2025 local elections.
2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections
Who’s who in Georgia’s parliamentary elections?
Georgians will go to the polls on 26 October in crucial parliamentary elections. Unlike in previous years, this election will be held under a fully proportional system. This means parties will be allocated a percentage of parliament’s 150 seats based entirely on the percentage of votes they receive nationwide, doing away with elections for individual MPs in single-seat constituencies. However, despite calls from many smaller parties, and despite previously promising the opposite, the ruling
2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections
Former President Giorgi Margvelashvili joins the Strong Georgia alliance
The Lelo-led Strong Georgia alliance has announced that former Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili joined their coalition. Lelo chair Mamuka Khazaradze announced that Margvelashvili joined their alliance at a pre-election event in Gori on Wednesday evening. Margvelashvili was first reported to have been in talks to join Strong Georgia earlier in September, after Lelo’s secretary general, Irakli Kupradze, published a photo with the ex-president on Facebook. ‘There is only victory ahead
2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections
Two major opposition groups fail to unite ahead of Georgian elections
Five weeks before Georgia’s parliamentary elections, the For Georgia party, led by former Georgian Dream member and ex-Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia, announced that negotiations to join the Strong Georgia alliance had failed. On 19 September, the opposition For Georgia party reported that the three-day long negotiations to create a unified bloc with the Strong Georgia alliance had faltered. The announcement followed what appeared to be difficult negotiations between For Georgia’s chair, Gi
2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections
Aleko Elisashvili joins Lelo-led Strong Georgia alliance
Aleko Elisashvili’s Citizens party has joined the Lelo-led Strong Georgia alliance two months ahead of October’s parliamentary elections. Elisashvili announced that he would join the opposition alliance on Monday, after stating he was in ‘very active’ negotiations with Strong Georgia in late July. The Alliance, formed in mid-July, consists of Mamuka Khazaradze’s Lelo, Anna Dolidze’s For the People, and Levan Tsutskiridze’s recently established Freedom Square. Strong Georgia, much like Kha
2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections
Aleko Elisashvili’s Citizens Party ‘in negotiations’ with growing Georgian opposition alliance
The Georgian opposition party, Citizens, led by MP Aleko Elisashvili, is in ‘active negotiations’ to join an opposition alliance of Lelo, For the People, and Freedom Square. A spokesperson for Citizens told OC Media that the negotiations were ‘very active’. ‘We don’t have any illusions that small parties, including Citizens, can overcome the 5% barrier on their own’. ‘We see a solution in unity and we think that enlargement is necessary for Georgia to continue its European integration an
