MP Davit Gamkrelidze, leader of the opposition New Rights party, said at a news conference on October 23 that his party?s parliamentary faction will stop boycotting and return to the Parliament?s chamber.
He said that many problematic issues, including in foreign policy, have accumulated and need to be pushed for discussion at the parliamentary sessions.
The New Rights, along with other opposition parliamentarians from the Republican, Conservative and Industrialists parties launched a boycott of parliamentary sessions in March, 2006 demanding Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili?s resignation following a high-profile murder case.
?This [end of the boycott] does not mean that we are giving up our demands. We still demand the resignation of [Interior Minister] Merabishvili,? he added.
The Democratic Front parliamentary faction, uniting MPs from Republican and Conservative parties, also recently ended its Parliamentary boycott. MPs from the Industrialist party are uncertain whether they will end the boycott, but will most likely will follow other opposition parliamentarians.
Also on October 23, the New Rights parliamentary faction announced that it has new member ? non-partisan MP Lasha Narchemashvili, brother of ex-Interior Minister Koba Narchemashvili.
The incorporation of a new member was vital for the 10-member New Rights faction after MP Koka Guntsadze quit the New Rights party and its parliamentary faction. At least 10 members are needed to have a parliamentary faction.
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