Presidential elections will be held on December 14. The date of the election of the president and the draft of the relevant resolution, which should be presented at the session, were proposed by the Chairman of the Parliamentary Bureau, Shalva Papuashvili.
Papuashvili stated that the inauguration of the President will take place on December 29.
Salome Zurabishvili is the last president to be directly elected by the population. This will be the first time that a president will be elected not by direct popular vote, but by an electoral college. The electoral college will consist of 300 members, including all members of the Parliament of Georgia and the supreme representative bodies of the autonomous republics of Abkhazia and Adjara. Other members of the electoral college will be nominated by the relevant political parties from among the representative bodies of local self-government in accordance with the quotas determined by the CEC on the basis of the organic law.
The first session of the parliament, the legitimacy of which is not recognized by either the opposition, the president, or the civil sector, opened amid protests. Accordingly, at the moment, the Georgian parliament is functioning as a single-party state, composed only of members of the Georgian Dream.
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