Parliamentary Speaker: Cabinet Reshuffle Expected

Georgian Parliamentary Chairman Davit Bakradze did not rule out the plans to reshuffle the cabinet; he, however, refrained from going into details.  

Bakradze said that the cabinet reshuffle had become necessary after the recent structural changes in connection with the merger of the Justice Ministry with the General Prosecutor’s Office and setting up a new Ministry for Penitentiary and Probation. The parliament has already approved the relevant constitutional amendments with its second hearing.

Georgian Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze has not also ruled out possible staff changes. Georgian media speculates much about Gurgenidze’s possible replacement.

“This is the President’s prerogative,” Gurgenidze told reporters. “Nobody is unchangeable.”      

Recently the lawmakers from the Christian-Democratic Party, whom the non-parliamentary opposition denounces as the government’s “satellite party,” openly demanded the Prime Minister’s resignation. 

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