03 May 2024,   09:04
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Establishment oflimits in electoral bonus system- opposition speaks about misleading international experts

Parliamentary delegation headed by the Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze arrived at the Venice Commission meeting with an adopted decision. "Georgian Dream" is going to consider part of the recommendation of international experts and establish the limit of bonuses on the so-called undistributed mandates .

The ruling team sets limit to upper, lower and relative levels of bonus system.

1. Absolute upper margin - The winning party will not receive more than 89 mandates at the expense of undistributed mandates;

2. Lower margin - 75 or less mandate when the winner party receives only this number of seats with bonuses, it will have 5 or less seats in the legislative body;

3. Relative Margin - The number of undistributed mandates shall not exceed 35% of basic mandates of the winning party.

According to the leader of the parliamentary majority, Archil Talakvadze, such bonus mechanism excludes the excess of the mandates in the Parliament received by any political party, ensuring full participation of the opposition parties in the parliamentary process..

Despite the fact that one of the recommendations of the Venice Commission on the electoral system was the recommendation on bonus system, the President of the Commission called on the government to reach the consensus today.

For the President of Georgia the introduction of the bonus system and the change of the rule of the president`s election is unacceptable.

The opposition speaks about misleading international experts regarding the bonus system.

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