Citizens to submit all candidates to Parliament for candidacy of Public Defender
By Liza Mchedlidze
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Levan Ioseliani has announced that the Citizens party plans to nominate 19 candidates to the parliament, i.e. all those who applied for the position of public defender. According to the member of the party and the vice-speaker of the parliament, the election process will no longer be threatened, and all candidates will have the opportunity to present themselves before the parliament.
"We made a decision to present all 19 candidates. The rules of the parliament and the order of the chairman of the parliament provide this opportunity. We will present at least all the candidates, everyone will be heard in the parliament and everyone's name will be voted on. Voting is open, open - the process will be as transparent as possible.
We are not going to be biased towards the candidates, because I don't know anyone except Iago Khvichia. We should give everyone an opportunity to present their opinions and fight for public defense. The attitude that someone likes someone and someone does not like someone should end," said Levan Ioseliani.
Responding to the decision of Citizens to nominate the 19th candidate for the post of ombudsman Lelo MP Salome Samadashvili told reporters that the naming of all candidates will make it easier for Georgian Dream to lobby for the candidate they want. According to Samadashvili, among them, there are those who can be lobbied and supported by the Georgian Dream.
"During the voting, we will support those candidates who were nominated by non-governmental organizations. They received a very high evaluation also according to the rules invented by Georgian Dream, so we feel very comfortable in our decision that the candidates of non-governmental organizations will be the best for this post.
As for the decision of other factions and political groups, who will be named, it is their decision. "Personally, I am sure that among the candidates there are people who may be secretly lobbied and supported by Georgian Dream, the fact that all of them will be named will make it easier for "Georgian Dream" to lobby for the candidate they want," said Samadashvili.
