President Zurabishvili to pardon Mtavari-TV co-founder Rurua on April 27
The presidential pardon aims to return the country and parliament to a normal political situation . Photo: IPN Agenda.ge, 21 Apr 2021 - 21:34, Tbilisi,Georgia
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has announced today that she will pardon opposition-minded Mtavari Arkhi TV co-founder Giorgi Rurua on April 27.
Zurabishvili had stated earlier on April 19 that she would pardon Rurua if Georgian political parties signed the renewed EU-proposed agreement and if opposition MPs entered parliament.
Therefore, the Presidential Pardoning decree will be issued the same day”, President Zurabishvili wrote in Facebook.
The Georgian President also said she decided to pardon Rurua in order for the country and parliament to return to a normal political situation .
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Georgian parties sign document aimed to resolve domestic political crisis
TBILISI. April 20 (Interfax) - The leaders of the ruling party Georgian Dream and five opposition parties signed a document on Monday evening drafted by the EU and the United States and aimed to resolve the domestic political crisis in Georgia.
The document envisages the end of parliament boycott by opposition parties and the parliament s declaration of amnesty for everyone involved in the Tbilisi unrest of June 20, 2019, when hundreds of opposition members tried to storm the parliament building. Besides, head of the opposition United National Movement Nikanor Melia and co-owner of the opposition Pirveli TV Giorgi Rurua will be released from custody, the electoral system will be adjusted, and the judiciary reform will be made more profound.
19 Apr in 11:20
Several changes have been made to the European Union-backed compromise to end the political crisis in Georgia. Head of the EU Delegation to Georgia Carl Hartzell, who introduced the changes to politicians earlier today, said this is a proposal that President of the European Council Charles Michel ‘views as balanced and realistic’.
Hartzell said after the meeting that some parties indicated before this meeting the need to consult the new proposal and we have taken that into account . Therefore, he said, the mediators are now looking forward ‘to again convincing the parties back here with the view to finalising this process as a way forward and end Georgia’s current political crisis’.
19 Apr in 15:40
The ruling Georgian Dream party has stated that they are ready to sign the new proposal by the EU to solve the political tension in Georgia which began after the 2020 parliamentary elections.
The agreement released by the European Council President Charles Michel on the weekend offers a pardon for all violations and convictions stemming from the 19-21 June 2019 protests in Tbilisi and says that if the ruling party fails to receive at least 43 per cent of votes in this year’s municipal elections, they should accept the conduct of repeat parliamentary elections.
The ruling party said earlier today that they were ready to accept the conduct of repeal elections if they received at least 40 per cent of votes in municipal elections.