Incumbent Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze, who is running for reelection, unveiled today the Georgian Dream’s proportional party list for Tbilisi City Assembly (Sakrebulo). The youth-dominated list of 25 candidates, among them 16 men and 9 women, includes:
- Levan Zhorzholiani
- Otar Grigolia, incumbent Sakrebulo member
- Tinatin Nibloshvili, incumbent member
- Giorgi Chakvetadze, incumbent member
- Niko Kakhetelidze, urbanist
- Nino Vardosanidze, assistant to Irakli Kobakhidze, Georgian Dream chair
- Akaki Aladashvili, Vice-President of Georgian Football Federation
- Giorgi Akhvlediani, incumbent Deputy Sakrebulo Chair
- Nino Rukhadze, incumbent member, lawyer
- Levan Abashidze, headed Deputy Parliament Speaker’s secreatriat
- Guram Okropiridze, Deputy Head of GD Youth Organization
- Ana Kakabadze, works at GD’s parliamentary faction apparatus
- Vladimer Bozhadze
- Aleksandre Khujadze, incumbent Tbilisi Sakrebulo member
- Mariam Zakariashvili, also works at GD’s parliamentary faction apparatus
- Levan Davitashvili, incumbent Tbilisi Sakrebulo member
- Shalva Ogbaidze, incumbent Tbilisi Sakrebulo member
- Natia Modebadze, Head of GD Training Center
- Levan Arveladze, incumbent Sakrebulo member
- Archil Goduladze, Chief of Staff at GD Parliamentary Faction
- Ana Kiladze
- Giga Bregvadze, leftist social activist
- Tatia Chakhvashvili, Chief of Staff at GD faction in Tbilisi Sakrebulo
- Vitali Oniani, Head of GD Youth Vake Branch
- Mariam Gelashvili, with work experience in GD parliamentary faction.
Recent changes to the electoral code, amended as per EU-mediated April 19 agreement between the Georgian Dream and opposition parties, increased the number of proportional-party seats in Tbilisi Sakrebulo to 40 and reduced the majoritarian seats to 10, as opposed to the previous allocation of 25 – 25. The changes also imposed a 40% threshold for the majoritarian candidates.
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