Parliament Speaker – 2020 parliamentary elections will be held with 3% threshold, political blocs and mixed system

13:53, 14.11.2019

The 2020 parliamentary elections will be held with 3% threshold, political blocs and mixed system – Parliament Speaker Archil Talakvadze said.

Talakvadze said that although Chairman of the ruling party held 2 sittings and called on MPs for backing the proposed draft project, the votes in support of holding the elections with the proportional system in 2020 did not turn out to be sufficient.

The constitutional changes prepared by the parliamentary majority regarding transformation onto the proportional system of elections were turned down in the parliament.

Based on the results of free balloting, the 101 MPs voted for, 3- against the constitutional draft project presented by the ruling team. The 113 votes were needed for the approval of the draft project. The 141 MPs underwent registration.

The Constitutional changes were put for voting with the first hearing in the Georgian parliament earlier this afternoon.

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2020 parliamentary elections

Archil Talakvadze