Georgia: Bakradze Discusses Constitutional Reform with Opposition, Civil.ge (2010)
The article reports about the meetings of the Chair of Georgian parliament with the leader of oppositional Our Georgia-Free Democrats (OGFD) party to discuss the draft Constitutional amendments. In July OGFD, which is in favor of a presidential system, but also supports increase of powers of the Parliament, called on the state commission on constitutional reform, which developed the new draft, to include in its draft a provision that would ban the incumbent president from being nominated as prime minister for at least five years after the expiration of presidential term. Moreover, 10 opposition parties called on the authorities in July to postpone Constitutional amendments till the elections of a new parliament in 2012, which was rejected.
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