Speaker says nobody outpaces Europe if electing Prosecutor General by qualified majority is good

10:52, 19.10.2022

Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili believes the election by the qualified majority is “a lie, an absolute utopia, as proved by the European experience.”

“If this were a good rule, Europe would be the first to implement it, especially when Europe is mostly focused on consensus,” Papuashvili said in an interview with GPB First Channel’s ‘Tavisupali Khedva’ (Free Vision).

His remark came after a question about the Constitutional amendments regarding the election of the Prosecutor General, freshly adopted by the Parliament in the first reading.

The Speaker deemed it “an anti-democratic tool, an attempt to give the minority leverage through measures outside the democratic process.”

“Georgia’s experience tells for itself that this method does not work,” he added, “but because this issue is one of 12 recommendations, the government must adopt it.”

By - Marika Kartozia

Politics

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Speaker Shalva Papuashvili