Under the current Constitution (art. 50(2), parties may form blocs (electoral coalitions) upon their convenience. This option shall be abolished under the draft amendments. The SCC in its explanatory note to the constitutional bill explains the reason for this change as follows: “For the  last two decades, this model has been a major obstacle to the development of the party system in Georgia. An institutionalized party system has not yet formed in the country. Nowadays, 20
political parties have the status of the so-called qualified parties despite the fact that a majority of these parties are not meeting minimum requirements to be called political parties and some of them are even fictitious. Apart from that, the notion of political blocs allows political parties to manipulate to artificially gain additional privileges (such as additional State funding, additional free-of-charge advertisement time, additional members and representatives at all levels of
electoral administration, etc.) All of these reasons have made it clear that the notion of electoral blocs plays a negative role in the sense of development of party system in Georgia and it is not prudent to keep it alive. Political subjects and, accordingly, electoral subjects must be political parties – something that corresponds to best European practices in the area of functioning political systems;”