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Paragraph 15
 

Article 15, par. 1 was substantially modified with the amendments in March 2008. It provides that 75 single-majoritarian election districts are formed for the parliamentary elections and that normally all self-governing units represent single mandate majoritarian election districts. The exception is Tbilisi (10 single mandates) as well as Eredvi and Kurta communities, which represent one majoritarian electoral district. The article specifies that the communities of Azhara and Tighvi do not compose independent majoritarian election districts. In the parliamentary elections held in May 2008, as ordered by the CEC and the courts, both communities were allowed to vote for another electoral units’ majoritarian candidates and were attached to two different pre-existing districts to do so. For clarity, it is recommended that the Election Code specify the arrangement by which these two communities are to vote in the majoritarian component of the parliamentary elections.