A Georgian household where two members each earn 1300 GEL a month - including income from rent - is already considered liable to pay property tax, opposition MP Roman Gotsiridze has said, calling for urgent reform of the system. Gotsiridze told Fron...
Member of the European Parliament Rasa Juknevičienė on Tuesday criticised the Georgian ruling party’s move to seek the ban of major opposition political forces in the country, calling the development “shocking”. Juknevičienė was responding to the Ge...
A group of opposition activists, including members of the Coalition for Change, have begun a hunger strike outside the Georgian Parliament on Rustaveli Avenue in central Tbilisi. The protest was initiated by coalition member Gedevan Popkhadze and in...
Georgia’s fifth president, Salome Zourabichvili, on Tuesday condemned the ruling Georgian Dream party’s initiative to ban key opposition parties, calling it an attempt to turn the country into a “Russian-style authoritarian regime”. In a statement p...
Georgia’s former president Mikheil Saakashvili has urged the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom to impose sanctions on Georgian banks, accusing them of supporting anti-democratic policies in the country. In a post on social med...
Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party, together with allied political groups, has submitted a constitutional complaint seeking to declare three opposition parties unconstitutional and ban their activities. The announcement was made by Parliament Spea...
The For Georgia party has acknowledged that its year-long parliamentary boycott was a political mistake, as its representatives took part in a plenary session for the first time since the elections. Speaking from the tribune on Tuesday, MP Giorgi Sh...
Georgia’s parliamentary majority leader, Irakli Kirtskhalia, has criticised lawmakers from the For Georgia opposition party as they participated in a plenary session for the first time, arguing that the group “must now demonstrate it is not political...
Georgia’s Interior Minister Geka Geladze is on an official visit to Budapest, where he met with his Hungarian counterpart Sándor Pintér to discuss strengthening cooperation in law enforcement. According to the Georgian Interior Ministry’s press serv...
The chair of the United National Movement, Tina Bokuchava, on Monday said the opposition should not attach excessive importance to whether ruling party founder Bidzina Ivanishvili would disband his party or use legal leverage as pressure against poli...
