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Appeals Court to review election annulment cases without party participation
The Georgian Appeals Court will deliberate today on lawsuits filed by the Unity – National Movement, Strong Georgia, and the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA), challenging the results of the October 26 parliamentary elections, without the pa...
Strong Georgia to withdraws parliamentary mandates in protest against government
The political council of the opposition Strong Georgia party voted to withdraw its parliamentary list and officially relinquish its seats, party leader Mamuka Khazaradze announced on social media on Thursday. The decision was approved by the majority...
Tbilisi City Court rejects opposition, GYLA lawsuits to annul October 26 election results
The Tbilisi City Court has dismissed lawsuits filed by opposition groups Unity – National Movement, Strong Georgia, and the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association which sought to annul the results of Georgia’s October 26 parliamentary elections, citing ...
European Court registers complaint against Georgia’s controversial “Agents’ Law”
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has officially registered a complaint against Georgia’s law on Foreign Influence Transparency, the so-called Foreign Agents’ Law. The information was released by the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA)...
400 cases of illegal hunting detected in Georgia within first two months of season
Since the start of the migratory bird hunting season in Georgia, the Environmental Protection and Supervision Department of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture has uncovered 400 cases of illegal hunting. The highest number of vio...
Women’s protest at Georgian Election Commission blocked by barriers, police
A group of women, including politicians, gathered at Georgia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) in Tbilisi on Wednesday to submit complaints challenging the results of the recent October 26 general election. The group, who claim the principle of vo...
CEC refutes opposition’s allegations of ballot marker tampering
Georgia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) on Wednesday rejected opposition claims that ballot markers used in the October 26 general elections had been tampered with and called the accusations “entirely false” and an attempt to mislead the public. ...
Opposition claims Georgia’s election administration used unbranded markers in general elections
The Chairperson of the Unity – National Movement opposition party, Tina Bokuchava, on Wednesday alleged the Georgian Central Election Commission had tampered with election markers to compromise the integrity of Georgia’s October 26 parliamentary elec...
Georgian PM: parliament needs “no opposition legitimacy” draws authority “from people alone”
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze declared on Wednesday that the nation’s newly elected Parliament requires “no legitimacy” from opposition parties, who have boycotted last month’s election results. Speaking at the United Nations Climate Cha...
Georgia’s PM at COP29: country aims for carbon neutrality by 2050 with “major” energy reforms
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Wednesday addressed global leaders at the COP29 summit, pledging Georgia’s commitment to carbon neutrality by 2050 through “comprehensive energy and climate policies” that he said include legislative refor...
