We will do everything necessary to ensure Georgian Dream will win the October 26 parliamentary elections with a constitutional majority – our task is to keep the opposition within the limits of approximately 30 mandates, and I think there is a very good chance of this, Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said.
He noted that, according to Gorbi research, Georgian Dream lacks just 6 mandates for a constitutional majority and said that, before the elections, “this deficit can easily be eliminated”.
“The opposition does not recognize the Gorbi study, and yet they unite one after the other in order to somehow try to overcome the 5% barrier. If they think they’ll have no problem crossing the barrier, why are they uniting so? They know what the real picture is. We also have our studies and the picture is similar. Let’s take the Gorbi study – I recalculated and we get 107 mandates, the opposition gets 43 mandates, which means that we are currently only 6 mandates short of the constitutional majority. I think this shortcoming can be easily eliminated. We are free to get a constitutional majority. For this, it is important to be mobilized as much as possible and to conduct the right campaign. Doing so will easily see us obtaining 113 mandates in parliament. The Gorbi data tells us this; data provided by our company tells us this,” Kobakhidze said.
GORBI published the results of a public opinion survey on the order of pro-government Imedi TV company last Thursday which saw Georgian Dream forecast to get 59.3% of the votes.
By Ana Dumbadze
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