By way of the 2020 reforms of the Election Code, mandatory gender quotas for candidate lists in parliamentary and local council elections had been introduced for the first time in Georgia, establishing a temporary mechanism to increase women's political representation. Also in 2020, a new provision was introduced into the Law on Political Associations of Citizens, according to which political parties entitled to public funding should receive an additional 30% increase in funding if they included at least three candidates of each gender within every 10 candidates on their lists. In February 2023, Parliament extended the validity period of gender quotas in proportional party lists until 2032.