{"id":125338,"date":"2016-03-04T12:27:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T12:27:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"PM_Speaks_of_Partnership_with_Republican_Party,_Need_for__Significant_Renewal__of_GDDG","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldwp.civil.ge\/archives\/125338","title":{"rendered":"PM Speaks of Partnership with Republican Party, Need for ‘Significant Renewal’ of GDDG"},"content":{"rendered":"
PM Giorgi Kvirikashvili said that Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia (GDDG), largest party within the GD ruling coalition, is considering partnership agreement with the Republican Party, and others within the coalition will have to join if GD is to remain multi-party entity for the October, 2016 parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a government session on Friday morning, Kvirikashvili, who is set to become chairman of GDDG party this spring, also said that GDDG “will of course be renewed to a significant extent.”<\/p>\n
GD coalition consists of five parties – GDDG; Republican Party; Industrialists; Conservative Party, and the National Forum. The two of them – Industrialists and Republicans – have been engaged in public confrontation<\/a><\/strong> for weeks already during which one of the leaders of Industrialist Party, MP Gogi Topadze, accused Defense Minister Tina Khidasheli of the Republican Party of manipulating Sagarejo MP by-election results in October, 2015.<\/p>\n Republicans have been accusing MP Topadze of pursuing Russian propaganda narratives. Topadze’s anti-Western rhetoric and remarks justifying Stalin’s mass repressions have put him at odds with ruling coalition’s declared policies for number of times in the past, and his recent similar remarks were dismissed by PM Kvirikashvili by saying<\/a><\/strong> on March 3: “Stalinist sentiments, radicalism and marginal pseudo-traditions originating from the depths of the Soviet Union are alien and unacceptable for the future of Georgia.”<\/p>\n But in the same statement<\/a><\/strong> on March 3, the PM also criticized Defense Minister Tina Khidasheli for engaging publicly in trade of barbs with the Industrialists.<\/p>\n