On 5 June the Georgian Dream coalition announced that the 2016 parliamentary elections will again be conducted based on the current mixed electoral system, with several changes to be implemented. These changes include setting up a 50% threshold for t

Legislative initiative of Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee was registered in the Parliament on 19 May 2015, authored by MP Paata Kiknavelidze. The bill provides for amendments to the Civil Code of Georgia, Civil Procedure Code of Georgia, the

 Transparency International Georgia released today a comprehensive national integrity system report examining the functioning of 12 institutions in Georgia. The report “National Integrity System Assessment Georgia 2015” was prepared under the fr

  The Coalition for an Independent and Transparent Judiciary would like to comment on the Government of Georgia authored bill drafted as part of the Ministry of Interior reform, which provides for separation of the State Security Service from t

  On 30 May 2015, at the conference organized by the President’s administration, participants signed the document on the issue of electoral reform. The agreement was made between 8 NGOs and 14 political parties, which includes parliamentar

The Bureau of the Parliament of Georgia was presented draft amendments to the Organic Law of Georgia on the National Bank of Georgia, which envisages depriving the National Bank of Georgia the supervisory function of the financial sector. We believe

  Few months ago our organization has requested information on whether citizen D.D. is employed by the Ministry of Interior (MoI) or any of its structure. Transparency International Georgia's inquiry is linked to blackmail of newspaper

  We, the signatory organizations, would like to react to developments in Gurjaani unfolding in recent days, which may as well contain elements of crime prescribed by the Criminal Code. We thus urge the law-enforcement agencies to react respecti

Tbilisi, 28 May 2015 – The 1 October 2012 parliamentary elections established a new ruling parliamentary majority and brought the Georgian Dream Coalition in the executive power. As part of its pre-election promises, the new government pledged t