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Resolutions Enacted at Rustavi City Council without Review

July 14, 2010
Manon Bokuchava

The members of the Rustavi city council voted for a resolution of the council, for the creation of commissions and budget amendments without having read the documents. Council members from the opposition parties  stated about it at a July 2 session.

“I cannot vote for the resolution which I have not read. It is impossible to read large documents in two minutes and have a valid opinion about it,” said Uta Lipartia from Alasania’s political party.

It has been uncovered that the schedule of the session and documents were distributed among council members the same day. “If it continues like that and we are not informed about the questions we have to discuss at the sessions, there will be no results. They are writing the documents, discuss them alone and finally approve too. Today, we had to discuss budget amendments where we needed calculations and figures. We also had to examine some resolutions that were legal documents – but we could not discuss any of them,” said council member from the Christian-Democrat Party, Aleksandre Akhvlediani.

Although the head of the city council, Kakha Gurgenidze, was informed about the abovementioned circumstances, he did give attention to this matter.

“The administration should consider this issue. Council members should have time to study the documents,” said Gurgenidze. However, he did not even think to postpone the discussion of several questions since council members from opposing parties did not have adequate time to study the documents.

Each question of the council members from the opposition parties seemed to cause agitation among the council members from the National Movement, the ruling party.

“I do not think they have personal antipathy towards any of us. We live in one city and respect each other. The frustration is caused by the fact that there is one-party system in the country and they have most power,” said Uta Lipartia.

The council members had high spirits during the session. Various commissions were established and the members of the ruling party occupied the positions of the chairpersons of each commission. “We have to celebrate it,” joked the chairman of the city council with the recently elected commission chairpersons.

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