Saakashvili Reiterates Importance of MP By-Elections

President Mikheil Saakashvili, who is currently visiting the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, said on August 17 that the upcoming MP by-elections for five vacant majoritarian (single-mandate constituency) seats scheduled for October 1 are very important.

?These elections will demonstrate whether the population supports the policies we have chosen? These are very important elections,? Saakashvili said while meeting with the local population of the Kobuleti district in Adjara.

The president?s trip to Adjara is part of the pre-election campaign to support the ruling National Movement party?s nominations in Adjara?s two single-mandate constituencies ? Batumi and Kobuleti.

Jemal Inaishvili, president of the Georgian Chamber of Commerce is running in the Batumi constituency and Koba Khabazi, the head of the Local Government and Regional Policy Coordination Office at the President?s Administration – in Kobuleti.

President Saakashvili already made a similar statement on August 11, while meeting with the local population in the Isani single-mandate constituency in the capital Tbilisi to support National Movement?s nomination in this district Bidzina Bregadze, the ex-deputy interior minister.

?We consider the October 1 by-elections to be a very important test in the eyes of the world that will demonstrate whether or not President Saakashvili’s course has the support of the population,? Saakashvili said on August 11.

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