The date for the election of Georgia's sixth President will be announced tomorrow, Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili has confirmed.
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“The Parliament will set the date for the presidential election tomorrow. Certain circumstances must be taken into account. We need to elect the President for a five-year term. Therefore, to ensure the President is elected for a full five years, it is crucial that both the election and inauguration take place this year. Accordingly, we will set the date tomorrow,” Papuashvili told journalists.
The Georgian Dream party plans to recognize the credentials of the 11th Parliament today, November 25. Opposition parties, which, according to the Central Election Commission, crossed the electoral threshold and won 61 out of 150 seats, refuse to recognize the Parliament's legitimacy.
President Salome Zourabichvili has declared that the first session of Parliament is unconstitutional: “1/massive electoral fraud has undermined its legitimacy. 2/ I refused to call the 1st session and the Constitution does not recognize anyone to act as substitute. 3/my appeal to the Constitutional court is pending,” Zourabichvili wrote on Platform X.
Salome Zourabichvili, who ran as an independent candidate supported by Georgian Dream in the 2018 presidential elections, is the last President to be directly elected by universal suffrage. The sixth President will be chosen by a 300-member electoral college, comprising members of the Georgian Parliament, representatives from the autonomous republics of Abkhazia and Adjara, and members of local self-governments. The election will be held in Parliament. According to the Constitution, no fewer than 30 members of the electoral college have the right to nominate a presidential candidate.
