Democratic Georgia & Free Georgia Present Tbilisi Mayoral Candidate

Two non-parliamentary opposition parties Democratic Georgia and Free Georgia have presented their joint candidate for Tbilisi Mayoral race Kakha Kukava, who is the leader and founder of the Free Georgia party.

The leader of the Democratic Georgia, Nino Burjanadze said that both parties have reached agreement to name Kukava as their mayoral candidate.

“Despite the fact that the Democratic Movement has a very worthy candidate for Tbilisi Mayor’s position, we have decided jointly that Kakha Kukava will be our Mayoral candidate and another dignified person Dimitry Lortkipanidze will be our candidate for the position of City Council Head,” Burjanadze noted.

The Democratic Georgia and Free Georgia invited other opposition parties to join them before the local October 2017 elections.

Together with the new candidate of the opposition Democratic Georgia and Free Georgia, there are 7 Tbilisi Mayoral candidates in total: Georgian Dream – Kakha Kaladze, The United National Movement - Zaal Udumashvili, European Georgia – Elene Khoshtaria, the Development Movement-Tengiz Shergilashvili, Alliance of Patriots of Georgia – Irma Inashvili and an independent candidate Alexander Elisashvili.

By Thea Morrison