The parliament today confirmed the date for electing the president during its plenary session. The issue was presented to parliament by the Parliamentary Speaker, Shalva Papuashvili.
Registration for voting was completed by 85 parliament members. 80 deputies voted in support of holding the elections on December 14, with no opposition.
Additionally, the inauguration of the new president will take place on December 29.
Shalva Papuashvili outlined the election procedure for the new president. According to the Speaker, once the presidential election date is established, the Central Election Commission (CEC) will convene an assembly of voters consisting of 300 members.
The assembly will comprise 150 Members of Parliament, while the remaining members will include 20 representatives from the Supreme Council of the Abkhazian Autonomous Republic, 21 members from the Adjara Supreme Council, and the remaining 109 members will represent self-governance bodies, allocated in proportion to the party support garnered in the 2021-2022 elections.
Each member of the assembly may vote for one candidate. In the first round of elections, a candidate must secure at least two-thirds of the votes from the entire assembly to be considered elected. If no candidate achieves this threshold, a second round of voting will occur, in which the candidate will be chosen by a simple majority.
The president will serve a term of five years. According to the Constitution, an individual must be at least 40 years old and have resided in Georgia for 15 years to be eligible for the presidential candidacy.
Current President Salome Zourabichvili was elected as the fifth president of Georgia through a direct public vote on November 28, 2018, and was inaugurated on December 16.
