Official: Local Elections to be Held in December

Local self-governance elections will be held in early December 2006, Giorgi Arveladze, chief of the President?s Administration, told Rustavi 2 television on August 7.

He said that the authorities want new local self-governance bodies to launch their activities from the new fiscal year.

The new tentative date is different from the one announced by the President this April, when he said that ?local elections will be held in, or around November.?

According to the amendments passed into the election code by Parliament on 23 June 2006, the law no longer sets any deadlines for the President to announce election dates. The only stipulation is that the elections should be held no sooner than 40 days after the President announces the date.

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