Saakashvili Again Offers Opposition Seat in GNCC

President Saakashvili reiterated an earlier government commitment to allow an opposition figure take a seat in the Georgian National Communications Commission (GNCC).

“The opposition should [be able] to control and participate in the processes ongoing in the sphere of regulations of communications,” a written annual state of the nation address of Mikheil Saakashvili posted on the president’s website reads.

In his speech delivered in Parliament on September 16, the president did not mention this initiative. Although he was reading a pre-prepared text, the president was often improvising and not fully sticking to the prepared text.

The initiative to allow an opposition representative take a seat in the GNCC was first agreed between the ruling party and the Christian-Democratic Party, a leading party in the parliamentary minority, in June 2008.

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