Ruling party in Georgia plans to repeal parliament gender quotas

By Shota Kincha, 2 April
Georgia parliament building (photo credit: Mike Norton via flickr)
Georgia parliament building (photo credit: Mike Norton via flickr)
Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party has announced they will support an initiative to drop gender quotas for party election lists. The party announced their plans to support a proposal from Girchi — New Political Centre to amend the electoral code on Monday. The gender quotas were introduced by the ruling party in 2020, receiving cross-party support in parliament. The current rules mean that every fourth person on a party’s electoral list must be of the opposite gender to the previous three.
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