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Person with Disabilities Is Number 1 on the Proportional List of the Republic Party in Gori

September 26, 2017
 Lado Bitchashvili, Shida Kartli

After having nominated Nino Bolkvadze, representative of the LGBT community, to be 7th on the political party’s list for the elections of the Tbilisi City Council, the Republic Party made another noisy statement about its candidates on the proportional election list and nominated Viktor Karkishvili, person with disabilities, to be their number 1 candidate in Gori municipality. 

Chairperson of the Gori organization of the Republic Party said nowadays the disabled people are isolated because of unadapted environment. 

“Although ramps are arranged in the city, they do not function in most places. Viktor needed help today when he was moving about in wheelchair. It means, the local government resolved the problems of disabled persons only for visual effect but the unadapted environment is still the issue. Besides addressing the problems of disabled persons, Viktor will work on the solution of general problems too. He is active member of the society and is aware of all problems in the villages of Gori municipality,” Aleksandre Valiauri said.

Viktor Karkishvili said it is time to end speculation with the needs of the disabled persons and the environment shall be improved in reality.

Viktor Karkishvili: “Unadapted environment is one of the problems we have. I live in residential building, which does not have lift. Regardless the promise of the Gori city mayor to arrange special lifts in all buildings, where disabled people live, they arranged the lift only in one building to show off before the society. Afterwards they forgot their promise. It is not necessary that decision maker was disabled person to address the real needs of the disabled people but in case of Gori municipality, it turned up necessary. 

I will not represent only disabled persons in the council; I will voice everybody’s needs and actively engage in the solution of current issues.”
The Republic Party did not nominate the mayor candidates in any cities throughout the country; they just nominated single mandate candidates and proportional lists. 

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