According to Tamar chugoshvili, Vice-Speaker of the Parliament, she and several other parliament members took decision to leave the ruling team. The reason is fail of the bill on the transaition to the proportional electoral system.
“This change was of principled importance to us. No matter what caused the failure of this constitutional amendment. We have no other option but to leave both the parliamentary positions and the parliamentary majority, as the failure of this constitutional amendment is a very difficult issue on which we cannot take responsibility,” Tamar Chugoshvili said.
Members of the parliamentary majority – Dimitri Tskitishvili, Irina Pruidze, Tamar Khulordava, Sopho Katsarava, Zaza Khutsishvili and Giorgi Mosidze, have left the ruling team.
To remind, The Parliament has rejected the bill on constitutional amendments relating to the proportional electoral system in the first reading. 101 MPs, including opposition lawmakers, supported the bill on the transaition to the proportional electoral system. Three MPs voted against the bill, though the required quorum was 113 votes, thus the MPs failed to approve the bill in the first reading.
141 MPs registered for the plenary session.
To remind, the bill, drafted by 93 lawmakers, proposes changes to the constitution, according to which, 2020 parliamentary elections will be conducted under proportional electoral system, with a zero barrier.
