Saakashvili Meets MPs from Ruling Party

President Saakashvili met with lawmakers from his ruling National Movement Party on April 6 to discuss the current political situation in the country.

Davit Bakradze, the parliamentary chairman, said that the authorities wanted a dialogue with the opposition to jointly discuss all the pressing political issues. 

“We think that there are issues on which dialogue is needed for the country; these include electoral [reform]; checks and balances system and increase of the Parliament’s role, as well as constitutional changes,” Bakradze said.

MP from the ruling party Pavle Kublashvili said after the meeting that no constitutional amendments had been prepared yet by the rulng party. He said all the concrete proposals on these issues should be elaborated jointly with the opposition in a process of dialogue. “We do not think that one group should decide something unilaterally,” he said.

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