
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.
Kavelashvili made the offer amid a boycott of the 2025 local election by numerous opposition parties.
He is the seventh politician to be sentenced for boycotting Georgian Dream’s anti-UNM commission.
Kote Ioseliani accused Bidzina Ivanishvili’s son, Uta Ivanishvili, of being in an affair with former Prime Minsiter Mamuka Bakhtadze.
Zurab Japaridze is the second person arrested over the anti-UNM commision boycott.
Georgia’s Prosecutor General’s Office launched an investigation into Irakli Okruashvili’s failure to appear at the commission in March.
Melia had been summoned by a parliamentary commission created to investigate crimes allegedly committed by his former party.
Most of the opposition politicians who were called to attend the commission’s session refused to participate.