The Georgian Parliament will meet on Thursday to express confidence in the renewed government headed by Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, the press service of the legislative body reported.
The 11th Parliament of Georgia, in which the Georgian Dream party is represented by a parliamentary majority, will express a vote of confidence in the renewed composition of the cabinet and the government program. Irakli Kobakhidze, who previously held the post, is a candidate for prime minister. There are three new ministerial candidates in his government: Maka Bochorishvili is running for the post of Foreign Minister, Henri Ohanashvili is running for the post of Minister of Justice, and David Songulashvili is running for the post of Head of the Ministry of Environment and Agriculture.
The government will be approved only by the Georgian Dream MPs, the opposition refused to enter the parliament as they do not recognize the results of the elections.
Candidates for ministerial posts have already been heard at joint meetings of parliamentary committees.
On November 16, Georgia's Central Election Commission published the final protocol of the October 26 parliamentary elections, according to which the ruling Georgian Dream party won with 53.93% of the vote and received 89 seats out of 150 in parliament. Four opposition parties also passed into parliament, receiving a total of 37.78%. Opposition representatives have already said they do not recognize the CEC data. Pascal Alizar, special co-ordinator of the OSCE short-term mission, noted the good organization of the elections in Georgia, but said there were a number of violations recorded by observers. Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili, who is helping the pro-European opposition despite the fact that the constitution requires the president to be non-partisan, called for protests over the election results.
Opposition members consider the results rigged and are demanding an international investigation and new parliamentary elections.
The Georgian Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation into the opposition's claims of allegedly rigged election results, but most opposition members are not cooperating with the agency.
Reprinted from https://ria.ru/
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