Paata Manjgaladze, a leader of the opposition Strategy Aghmashenebeli party, has claimed that the pardon of opposition figures Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze was designed to deepen divisions within Georgia’s opposition. Speaking to Front News...
Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze, leaders of the opposition coalition Strong Georgia – Lelo, have said their decision to participate in upcoming local elections remained unchanged, following their pardon by President Mikheil Kavelashvili and cal...
Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Friday said internal divisions within the opposition were “good” for the ruling Georgian Dream party ahead of local elections on October 4. Speaking to the press, Kobakhidze noted that while some opposit...
Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has warned that political activity allegedly funded from abroad posed a threat to the country’s constitutional order, singling out “radical opposition parties linked to the former ruling United National Move...
Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Friday warned that his government would not tolerate any attempts to topple the state, “whether peaceful or violent.” His comments came after opposition figures Paata Burculadze and Levan Khabeishvili sp...
A news agency in Georgia’s Russian-controlled breakaway Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region has claimed that Tbilisi had “officially recognised” responsibility for starting the August 2008 war. The outlet, RES, this week reported that a 460-page repor...
Leaders of Georgia’s opposition have called on Lelo party founders Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze, recently pardoned by President Mikheil Kavelashvili, to step back from participating in upcoming elections. Elene Khoshtaria, a leader of the C...
Incumbent Tbilisi’s mayor and ruling party Secretary General, Kakha Kaladze, has described President Mikheil Kavelashvili’s recent decision to pardon two opposition leaders as a “humane act”. The president earlier on Friday pardoned Mamuka Khazaradz...
Petre Tsiskarishvili, Secretary General of the United National Movement (UNM) opposition, on Friday criticised the government’s claim that upcoming local elections would be held in a competitive environment, arguing it would have been credible only i...
Iago Khvichia, head of the libertarian Girchi party, has questioned President Mikheil Kavelashvili’s decision to pardon Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze, leaders of the Strong Georgia coalition and founders of the Lelo party, but not other polit...
