Ruling Party Close to Secure 71 Majoritarian Seats out of 75

Initial results of the majoritarian MP contest in single-mandate constituencies show that the ruling party is close to secure 71 majoritarian seats out of 75 available in the new 150-seat parliament.

Two majoritarian seats will go to MP candidates from the New Rights Party (in the Tbilisi’s Didube and Vake constituencies) nominated by the nine-party bloc and remaining two to the Republican Party candidates in Tsageri (the ruling party had no candidate there) and in Kazbegi.

These results in the majoritarian contest, combined with the ruling party’s landslide victory in the proportional, party-list contest, means that the National Movement may have at least 120 seats in the new parliament, which is more than enough to form the constitutional majority.

Two-third of seats in the 150-member parliament is needed for the constitutional majority.