Georgia's Parliament Has Become One-party

Opposition MPs were stripped of their mandates.

The Georgian parliament has become one-party, with the ruling pro-Russian party stripped of the mandates of 12 deputies from the opposition party "For Georgia" of former Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia. The reason for the termination of their mandates was that the party's deputies allegedly did not participate in meetings.

The said party has also been deprived of state funding, DW reports. Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili said that representatives of Gakharia's party skipped parliamentary sessions "without a valid reason."

Gakharia's party claims that they did not skip sessions, but "boycotted the illegitimate parliament." The politician himself called the stripping of his party members of their mandates "a page torn from the Kremlin's methodology."

Gakharia said opposition members were being stripped of their immunity to clear the way for political persecution and "eliminate the threat" ahead of this fall's municipal elections.

Georgia's parliament, according to the country's law, should consist of 150 parliamentarians. But at the moment only 89 deputies are involved in its work. And all of them are representatives of the ruling, pro-Russian "Georgian Dream".

The other 61 representatives of the opposition, although they have passed into parliament, fulfill the decisions of their parties. And the parties refused to recognize the election results and announced a boycott of parliament.

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