22 December 2024,   09:24
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Amendments to newly adopted constitution - opposition criticizes ruling party

The Legal Committee of the Parliament starts discussing constitutional amendments today. Changes in the bonus system, the right to set up blocks for parties and the possible change of the rule for electing the president.

It is about electing the President by the parliament instead of 300 special voters.

"If any issue arises at today"s committee session, the session will be open and we are ready to listen to these opinions in order to have even higher standard in the country"s basic law," said the Chair person of the Legal Affairs Committee Eka Beselia.

The opposition does not support the amendments. The "National Movement" protests against the change of the rule of electing the president and says that the new changes can not make the constitution better.

"President is elected by the consensus, it is legally illegitimate. What is the member of the Sakrebulo with the choice of the President? The fact that it changes the legal nonsense by the way it changes, but this does not change the political essence in general. The country is abandoning people"s right to elect president, "said Roman Gotsiridze.

"European Georgia blames the" "Georgian Dream" in the unreasonable action.

"The Georgian Dream" confirms the inconsistency of constitutional amendments, now they offer to abolish the so-called bonus system by 2024, which was in its time demanded by the opposition and now they talk about changing the rule of the election of the president and it seems that they should suggest a lesser representative board that will elect the president "- Said Irakli Abesadze.

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