Parliament Approves New Rule on Electing Tbilisi City Council, Mayor

The Parliament, dominated by the ruling National Movement party, passed with its first hearing the government-backed proposal over the new rule of electing a City Council and the Tbilisi Mayor.

The rule envisages the election of a Council through a first-past-the-post, ?winner takes it all? system. The Council will then elect the Tbilisi Mayor among its members. The opposition denounced this proposal as a step towards a ?one-party dictatorship.? 

Before voting on this proposal, the Parliament rejected a draft law introduced by the opposition New Rights parliamentary faction, which envisaged direct elections of the Tbilisi Mayor.

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