An inaugural session of the newly elected Parliament will be held on November 18, according to the presidential decree signed by Giorgi Margvelashvili on Thursday after the Central Election Commission (CEC) approved a final vote tally for the October parliamentary elections a day earlier.
President Margvelashvili and Chairperson of CEC, Tamar Zhvania will address lawmakers at the inaugural session.
Before filling parliamentary posts, the new Parliament should confirm credentials of its newly elected members.
The inaugural session will be chaired by Revaz Arveladze, 75, oldest member of the Parliament, elected through GDDG’s party list, until lawmakers elect a new chairperson – the ruling party has already named its executive secretary, Irakli Kobakhidze, 38, as the new parliamentary chairman.
At the inaugural session the Parliament will elect vice speakers and committee chairpersons, form parliamentary majority and minority groups, as well as parliamentary factions.
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After distribution of legislative positions, the procedures of government formation will be launched next week.
GDDG, which showed the best results in the parliamentary elections, will re-nominate incumbent Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili as the head of government within seven days after the inaugural session of the newly elected Parliament. Kvirikashvili, in turn, will nominate ministerial candidates to the Parliament within seven days; the latter will also have seven days to hold confidence vote on the new government and its program.
Before re-nominating Kvirikashvili, who is an elected lawmaker, as the Prime Minister, the Parliament will suspend his credentials. Kvirikashvili, who plans certain changes in the new cabinet, has yet to name ministerial candidates.