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Industrialist Party Nominates Tbilisi Mayoral Candidate

The opposition Industrialist party officially nominated Gogi Topadze as a candidate for the Tbilisi mayoral race on August 30.


Topadze, founder of the Industrialist Party, is a former parliamentarian and beer magnate who runs the Kazbegi company.


?It is difficult to think that elections will be fair, but we have a strong team in the regions, and we think we should use this chance to run in the elections, and I will run for the [Tbilisi] city mayoral race,? Topadze said at a news conference on August 30.


He also said that the leading opposition parties initially wanted to nominate a single candidate for the Tbilisi Mayor?s Office but failed to come to any agreement.


Topadze will challenge the ruling National Movement party?s nomination, current Tbilisi Mayor Gigi Ugulava, and ex-Foreign Minister Salome Zourabichvili in the elections scheduled for October 5. Other opposition parties have not yet nominated their candidates.


According to the law, the Tbilisi Mayor is elected by the Tbilisi City Council ? the Sakrebulo – where 25 members will be elected through a first-past-the-post, ?winner takes all? majoritarian system in Tbilisi?s ten constituencies, while the remaining 12 seats will be distributed, through a so called ?compensatory list,? from among those parties that garner at least 4% of votes in all ten constituencies of the capital city.


But in respect of the majoritarian system, a party should garner at least 1/3 of the total ballots cast in a particular constituency to endorse candidates in that Sakrebulo. Five out of ten elections districts in Tbilisi will be three-mandate constituencies, while the other five will be two-mandate constituencies.


The 37-member City Council will then elect the Tbilisi Mayor from among its members. The candidate will have to win at least 2/3 of the total votes in the council.

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