Results of Primaries Announced

The New Rights party won a primary elections in three out of four constituencies, the election commission, set up by the opposition parties to administer the current primaries, announced on September 19.

Primaries were held on September 17 by the New Rights, Conservative, Freedom and Labor parties in an attempt to nominate single candidates for the October 1 MP by-elections.

According to the final results of the primaries, the opposition will nominate Giorgi Mosidze of the New Rights in Tbilisi?s Isani single-mandate constituency, Nino Kviriani in the Tkibuli constituency, in western Georgia, and Roin Nizharadze in the Shuakhevi constituency of the Adjara Autonomous Republic.

Jumber Tavartkiladze of the Conservative Party leads the polls in the Batumi constituency of the Ajdara Autonomous Republic.

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, and therefore no primaries were held in Kobuleti.

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