Opposition Holds Primaries

Four opposition parties hold primaries on September 17 to nominate single candidates for the MP by-elections, which will be held in five majoritarian (single mandate constituency) seats on October 1. These are the first-ever primaries held in Georgia.

Candidates from the opposition New Rights, Conservative and Freedom parties are participating in the primaries. Although the opposition Labor Party joined the initiative, but it has not nominated candidates for the primaries.

Primaries are held in four single-mandate constituencies: Batumi and Shuakhevi in Adjara?s Autonomous Republic; western Georgian town of Tkibuli and Tbilisi?s Isani district.

The opposition parties have reached an agreement to nominate Jimsher Jincharadze of the Conservative Party, as the opposition?s single candidate for the Kobuleti constituency in Adjara, hence no primaries are held in Kobuleti.