Georgia
Georgian parliament rushes amendments to abolish gender quotas
Georgia’s parliament has voted to repeal gender quotas in parliamentary election lists in a session rife with clashes and exchanges of insults between MPs. On Thursday, the parliament approved amendments to the Election Code, reversing changes made in 2020 according to which every fourth candidate in a party’s election list needed to be of a different gender to the previous three. The ruling party announced their support for the initiative, tabled by the libertarian Girchi — New Political
