Giorgi Margvelashvili

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Former Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili announcing that he was joining Strong Georgia. Screengrab via social media.

2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections

Former President Giorgi Margvelashvili joins the Strong Georgia alliance

by OC Media

•1 min read

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

Salome Zurabishvili (Mari Nikuradze /OC Media)

Bidzina Ivanishvili

Georgian President in disagreement with government over exclusion from security council

by OC Media

•3 min read

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. The row is the first public disagreement between the president, who was elected as an independent candida

Georgia

President under fire for refusing to nominate new Georgian Supreme Court head

by Dato Parulava

•5 min read

Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has come under fire from civil society groups as well as ruling party and opposition MPs for refusing to nominate a candidate to head the Supreme Court. Some critics warned the move could allow a ‘dominant group of judges’ on Georgia’s High Council of Justice to strengthen their grip over the judiciary. The President’s administration announced a nomination would be pointless ‘due to the absence of consensus’, after the ruling Georgian Dream Party ref

2018 Georgian Presidential Elections

Analysis | From Ivanishvili’s chosen to a ‘united opposition’ candidate — how Georgia’s aspiring presidents stack up

by Shota Kincha

•8 min read

With the date now set for Georgia’s presidential elections, it’s still not clear who will run and who will not. In what is set to be the country’s last direct presidential election, could a political upset challenge Georgian Dream’s dominance? Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has announced that presidential elections will be held on 28 October. The election date was one of two issues the Georgian political class, public, and the country’s international partners had been waiting for

Freedom of the Press

President vetoes controversial bill on Georgian Public Broadcaster

by OC Media

•3 min read

Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has vetoed a controversial bill which would have allowed more advertising to be aired on the Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB). Parliament can now choose consider comments from the president, or to overrule the veto. The draft law to amend Georgia’s Law on Broadcasting, which passed its third and hearing in Parliament on 22 December, has faced opposition from other broadcasters and civil society, as well as Parliament’s Committee of Sectoral Econo

Georgia

Georgian Parliament overrides president’s constitution veto

by OC Media

•2 min read

Georgia’s parliament has overridden President Giorgi Margvelashvili’s veto of a package of constitutional amendments. The constitutional majority of the ruling Georgian Dream party voted against incorporating additional remarks from the president on 13 October. Margvelashvili vetoed the package on 9 October, calling it ‘the veto of consent’, as he had included changes which were supported by more than 20 opposition political parties. The US Embassy in Georgia said on 13 October they sup

Constitutional Reform

President vetoes Georgia’s constitutional changes

by OC Media

•2 min read

Georgia’s President Giorgi Margvelashvili vetoed on 9 October a package of constitutional amendments adopted by Parliament. The package, with additional remarks from the president, will now return to parliament to be debated, although they have the power to override the veto. Margvelashvili said his version of the amendments includes six core changes to the version adopted by parliament. Parliamentary Chair Irakli Kobakhidze said on 6 October the bonus system — which would assign votes