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"GREENS' PARTY" REQUESTS LOWERING OF THE ELECTION BARRIER TO 4%
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"GREENS' PARTY" REQUESTS LOWERING OF THE ELECTION BARRIER TO 4%Tbilisi, 30 January ’04, Prime-News. – Leader of "Greens' Party of Georgia" George Gachechiladze does not see any point in participating in the March 28 parliamentary elections, if the election barrier is not lowered. As George Gachechiladze told Prime-News, in conditions of 7% election barrier, only governmental power has chances to come to the parliament. The leader of "Greens' Party" of Georgia believes that the election barrier should be reduced from 7% to 4%. […] COE CALLS FOR ELECTORAL REFORMSTbilisi, 29 January ’04, Civil Georgia. - Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) adopted at the session on January 28 recommendations developed by the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Monitoring Committee calling for Georgia’s new leadership to reform the election system for partial parliamentary elections, scheduled for March 28. “The Assembly asks the Georgian authorities to adopt without delay a number of measures, which must be fully implemented when the forthcoming parliamentary elections are held,” the recommendations read. The Assembly called Georgian leadership for passing “amendment of the Electoral Code and of the other electoral legislation and regulations, in full co-operation with the Council of Europe experts.” The PACE also recommends to “modify the composition of the Central Election Commission and of the election commissions at lower levels, in order to promote the principle of balanced, fair and equal representation of all political forces.” The list of recommendations also includes simplifying the voting procedures, ensuring a clear segregation between governmental structures and the electoral authorities, and introducing a principle that the latter must be completely impartial. “Revision of the voters lists, with the creation as soon as possible of a single, centralized and computerized register of electors, and the final ending of the practice of registering voters' names on supplementary lists on election day itself, a practice which entails a considerable risk of fraud.” The Assembly considers that the parliamentary elections of 28 March 2004 are likely to be “a genuine test of the Georgian authorities' capacity to organize truly democratic, free, fair, transparent and competitive elections.” PACE: POLITICAL PLURALISM ENDANGERTbilisi, 29 January ’04, Civil Georgia. - The Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE), in its recommendations to the Georgian government, expressed concern on January 28 regarding “the current reshaping of Georgian political life and the risk of a disappearance of all parliamentary opposition after the forthcoming [March 28] elections and, in consequence, of any true institutional counterweight.” “If the elections were to culminate in the sole representation in Parliament of the ruling coalition the Assembly might fear for the future of democratic pluralism in Georgia,” the PACE stated. President Mikheil Saakashvili’s and State Minister Zurab Zhvania’s parties – the National Movement and United Democrats announced on January 28 about merger. No one doubts that this coalition will gain the majority of seats in the new Parliament. “It therefore recommends that the Georgian authorities amend the Constitution and the corresponding legislation so as to reduce the threshold for representation applying to the ballots based on proportional lists from 7% to at least 5%,” the PACE recommendations read. GEORGIAN CEC POSTPONES PARLIAMENTARY MAJORITY ELECTIONS IN CHIATURA FROM 7 MARCH TO 28 MARCHTbilisi, 29 January ’04, Black Sea Press. - The Central Elections Commission of Georgia (CEC) has postponed Parliamentary elections on majority system in the Chiatura electoral district from 7 March to 28 March. As we know the Supreme Court of Georgia decided to call by-parliamentary elections in the Chiatura electoral district thus satisfying the claim of the supporters of the majority nominee Sergo Yakobidze. At the moment there had been instituted criminal proceedings against Yakobidze for charges of peculation of public funds. Under the law, the new parliamentary elections should be called within two months after the results of voting were annulled. […] POLITICAL ENTITIES REGISTERED BY CECTbilisi, 28 January ’04, Rustavi2. - The Georgian Central Electoral Commission (CEC) has registered 11 political organizations to take part in the parliamentarian elections to be held on 28 March. Registered parties' list goes as follows: Way of Merab Kostava - Oneness, Christian-Conservatives' Party, Georgian Union of God's Children, Georgian Helsinki Union - National Revival, National Dignity Party, People's Party, Integrity, People's Alliance of All Georgia, Nodar Natadze - People's Front, Union of Georgian Traditionalists and Labor Party. Statements on participation in the elections have been submitted by 27 political entities in total. The deadline for the parties to submit the statements expires on 31 January, 2004, 18:00. In five days from the submission, the commission should register the aspirants.
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