国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

   

Saakashvili registered as 1st presidential candidate

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-12-08 13:43

MOSCOW -- The Georgian Central Election Commission (CEC) has registered Mikhail Saakashvili as a candidate for the country's presidency at the early election to be held on January 5, CEC Chairman Levan Tarkhnishvili told journalists in Tbilisi Friday.


President Mikhail Saakashvili speaks to businessmen in Tbilisi Nov. 10, 2007. [Xinhua]

Saakashvili, who was elected president in January 2004 with a five-year tenure, resigned on November 25 in order to run for president.

"The United National Movement party that nominated Saakashvili as a presidential candidate was the first (on December 4) to submit the lists of electorate signatures necessary for the registration and CEC representatives have checked the lists in recent days," Tarkhnishvili was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying.

"The CEC members have not found problems in the presented lists, therefore the issue of the official registration of Saakashvili asa presidential candidate was considered," Tarkhnishvili said.

The early presidential election was approved by the Georgian parliament after Saakashvili resigned from the post of head of state on November 25.

A total of 13 potential candidates have submitted signatures from the electorate. The CEC registered Saakashvili first. All the other candidates submitted the electorate signatures on December 6 and it will take one to two days to check them. The registration process is to be completed before December 11.

The deadline for the submission of signatures of 50,000 electors to the CEC needed for the official registration of the presidential candidates expired in Georgia Thursday.

Besides Saakashvili, the main candidates also include Levan Gachechiladze, a single candidate from the National Council of Opposition Parties, David Gamkrelidze, leader of New Rightists party, Shalva Natelashvili, head of the Labour Party and businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili, nominated by a group of citizens.

On December 4, Saakashvili became the first of the presidential candidates whose headquarters' representatives submitted to the CEC signatures of the electorate. A total of 140,000 signatures insupport of Saakashvili were presented to the CEC.

Over the past two days, representatives of two other main candidates announced they had completed the collection of signatures Thursday. They said they collected much more signatures than the required 50,000.

The Georgian opposition Monday asked the West to press Georgian authorities to secure free and democratic presidential elections.

A Georgian court Thursday lifted a government ban on pro-opposition television station Imedi, bowing to Western pressure to allow the channel back on air before next month's presidential election,

The TV station was shut down after violent street protests in early November, said a court spokesperson.



Top World News  
Today's Top News  
Most Commented/Read Stories in 48 Hours
马山县| 云南省| 铜梁县| 新泰市| 巫山县| 富裕县| 吴忠市| 宜宾市| 阜南县| 平谷区| 祥云县| 隆回县| 乌鲁木齐县| 武强县| 兴山县| 沙湾县| 赣榆县| 兴宁市| 武清区| 扶沟县| 蓝田县| 铁力市| 惠东县| 镇远县| 东光县| 日照市| 内江市| 临潭县| 海安县| 乐业县| 三原县| 沁水县| 长乐市| 师宗县| 普兰店市| 富民县| 泾川县| 黑河市| 东乡县| 桃园县| 成安县|