Submission of party lists

1. To obtain seats of the Tbilisi Sakrebulo members under the proportional electoral system, a party shall submit party lists to the CEC not later than 30 days before the polling day.

2. Party lists of candidates to be elected in the Tbilisi Sakrebulo through the proportional electoral system shall include not less than 50 and not more than 100 candidates.

3. A party list may include a candidate nominated in the majoritarian electoral district. In such a case, a party list shall make a note of the nomination of the candidate for a single-seat majoritarian electoral district.

4. A party list may include members of the party and those individuals who are not members of another party running in the elections. A party shall have the right to nominate as a candidate for membership of Tbilisi Sakrebulo a legally competent citizen of Georgia, who has a command of the state language of Georgia and who has attained 21 years of age by the polling day.

5. The procedure for compiling a party list shall be defined by the parties. When compiling a party list, it shall be considered that the seats obtained by a party according to the election results are distributed in succession, starting from the top of the list.

6. Party list shall indicate the following information on each candidate:

a) first and last name;

b) date of birth;

c) occupation;

d) position (activity);

e) place of work (if unemployed, specify ‘unemployed’);

f) party affiliation (if not a party member, specify ‘non-partisan’);

g) personal number of a citizen of Georgia;

h) address (according to a Georgian citizen’s identity card or the Agency database);

i) name of the local single-seat majoritarian electoral district in the case of nomination as a majoritarian candidate.

7. A party list shall be certified by the signature of the leader of a party running in the elections.

8. The party list shall be accompanied by a photocopy of each candidate’s identity card of a citizen of Georgia or of the passport of a citizen of Georgia, a certificate on the deprivation of the right, 2 photos and 2 copies of the registration card signed by him/her, indicating the date of its completion. Along with the candidate’s personal data (the first name, last name, personal number of a Georgian citizen, address (according to the identity card of a citizen of Georgia or the Agency database), date of birth), the registration card shall indicate the fact of the candidate’s residence in Georgia for 5 years his/her consent to run in elections under this party list.

Organic Law of Georgia No 2093 of 7 March 2014 – website, 14.3.2014

Organic Law of Georgia No 5438 of 22 June 2016 – website, 12.7.2016

Organic Law of Georgia No 1274 of 26 July 2017 – website, 29.7.2017

Organic Law of Georgia No 3266 of 21 July 2018 – website, 13.8.2018

Organic Law of Georgia No 5772 of 17 March 2020 – website, 23.3.2020