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Gori City Council Members Plan to Resign the City Mayor and Senior Officials of the Council

August 31, 2015
 
Lado Bitchashvili, Shida Kartli

Eight city council members from the opposition political parties declared mistrust to the mayor. They lodged petition to the chancellery of the city council on August 26. Besides the mayor, the council members request resignation of the chairman of the council, his deputy and chairman of the property management commission at the council.

10 votes are enough to declare mistrust to the Gori Mayor in the 15-member city council. Thus, the deputies need 2 more votes. As for the resignation of the senior officials of the council and chairman of the commission, they already have enough votes. 

After the Free Democrats joined the opposition political parties, the Georgian Dream fraction lost majority in the city council and now the opposition have more power. The division of votes in the 15-member city council is the following: 9 members from the opposition parties and 6 from the Georgian Dream Coalition.

City Mayor Zurab Jirkvelishvili told humanrights.ge that he does not know concrete reason why the city council members declared mistrust to him. “I do not know anything except the information that they have filed petitions at the chancellery; my position is that they have right to do it.”

Relations between the mayor and the opposition members of the city council have got tense recently. Initially the council declined two motions of the mayor. Then the situation became tenser during the bureau session. The verbal argument turned into the criticism of the mayor. The opposition stated the mayor is weak and there are infrastructural problems in the city. At the bureau session the Mayor said the opposition tried to negatively represent his achievements.

Member of the Labor Party in the city council and chairman of the property management commission Zaza Mezvrishvili did not join the impeachment procedures; the 8 deputies request his resignation too.

Zaza Mezvrishvili from the Labor Party: “If they do not propose better candidate than the acting mayor, I will not support impeachment of the mayor, council chairman and his deputy.”

The council members, who commenced the impeachment procedures, have not yet mentioned concrete reasons of their decision. They are waiting for the September 4 session and refuse to make any comments before.

MP Tamaz Shioshvili from Free Democrats supports the request of the council members. “I warn the Georgian Dream that we will do our best to start deconstruction of the Georgian Dream from Gori. Georgian Dream has the weakest self-government in Gori,” Shioshvili said.

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