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PM Names Part of GDDG’s MP Candidates

PM Giorgi Kvirikashvili, who chairs ruling Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia (GDDG) party, named on Wednesday some of the party’s MP candidates who will be running in the October 8 elections.

“I believe that along with the existing team, the Georgian Dream’s renewed team will win a convincing victory in the elections,” PM Kvirikashvili said without yet specifying how the newly named 15 candidates will be positioned in GDDG’s party list.

Candidates ranked higher on their respective party’s list of MP candidates have more chances of getting seat in the legislative body if that party clears 5% threshold in nationwide vote.

GDDG also has yet to name its majoritarian MP candidates in the single-mandate constituencies. 77 seats in 150-member Parliament are allocated under the proportional, party-list system, and remaining 73 seats go to majoritarian MPs elected in single-mandate constituencies.
 
While presenting 15 candidates, many of them western educated and most of them in their 30s, the PM said that this “renewed team” of GDDG will “give positive impetus not only to our party but also to the Georgian politics.”

Pointing to the fact that eight of 15 newly named candidates are female, the PM said that it was “not by chance”, but pursuant to gender equality.

The candidates include:

When presenting the candidates at a house museum of a 19th century Georgian public figure, Ilia Chavchavadze, in Saguramo outside Tbilisi, PM Kvirikashvili said that the Georgian politics “needs new energy, new vision.”

“Today’s realities push for new agenda, new requirements and our party meets them with a renewed team and is ready to respond to all challenges,” he said and added that “fundamental changes” have been initiated over the past four years, which will become “tangible for each person quite soon.”

“We try not to talk much about our deeds, because people anyway see them,” he said.

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