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I think once the election date is released Zaza will start drip feeding the evidence he has been gathering since 2013 against the GD to back up what he has been saying in his interviews these last few months. He knows without the GD out FRR go nowhere and are just left with the drilled producing wells that cant be drilled deeper until the PSA runs out in 2027.
The previous post was copied from the post by Earsbern on Tuesday 28th @ 20:58. The bit missing at the end is ' for the European Parliament'.
No matter how hard I looked, I could find no mention of the official election dates. So I emailed the Georgian embassy in London with a few basic questions about the election procedure. Just for info, This is it :-
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Hi - I have an interest in election methodologies, and would like to follow the georgian parliamentary elections in October. I understand that 120 seats are chosen by proportional representation and 30 seats by majority vote, and that these votes are cast over 2 rounds. I would be grateful if you could kindly find the time to answer the following few basic questions for me so I can better understand what is happening.
The questions are :---
1. What are the dates for rounds 1 & 2, please?
2. Does each voter have 2 votes - one for the PR seats, and another one for the majoritarian seats?
3. Will the PR voting paper have the same list of candidates for the whole country?
4. Are all PR votes decided by completion of the count in round 1 - e.g. the PR seats do not go forward to round 2.
5. After round 1, do majoritarian seats go forward to round 2 only if no candidate has more than 50% of the vote?
Thank you for your time.
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And the reply (next day) :-
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Thank you for your interest in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Georgia, to be held in late October this year. Please kindly find below answers to your questions.
1. Regular elections of the Parliament of Georgia shall be held in October of the calendar year during which the term of authority of the Parliament expires. The President of Georgia shall call the date of the elections, upon countersignature of the Prime-Minister of Georgia, no later than 60 days before the elections. Accordingly, the exact date has not been defined yet.
2. Yes, each voter has 2 votes - one for the PR seats and another for the majoritarian seats.
3. Yes, PR voting paper will have the same list of candidates for the whole country.
4. PR votes are decided by completion of the count and there is no 2nd round for PR seats.
5. Yes, if no candidate has more than 50% of the vote, there will be 2nd round between first two candidates.
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The dates, then, should be published any time now.
In theory, the parliamentary majority could be decided after round 1 (presumably in early October), when at least 120 seats will have been decided.
Genuine election wonks like me may also like to know that the PR system used is the 'closed list' method, where people vote for the party rather than individuals, and the party's published list of their candidates is in the order that the party wishes them to be elected - e.g. the party's most preferred candidate is top of the list, and so is their first one 'past the post'. This method was used for UK elections
What ratio is being used in the election eh?