CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN GEORGIA AS A RESULT OF ITS POLITICAL INSTABILITY
Abstract
In the twenty years that have elapsed since Georgia gained its independence, it has failed to stabilize its political system; the republic is busy looking for an adequate model of political governance and territorial-administrative division; there is no flexible and effective electoral system acceptable to all.
Year after year, the Constitution acquires amendments and addenda which never resolve the political contradictions and merely add to the confusion.
For over twenty years now, Georgian politicians have been discussing and disagreeing about the new electoral systems and constitutional amendments and addenda; they prefer to call their disagreements “nation-building.” The republic’s citizens have become lost in a dense forest of legal formulas and political regulations.
In fact, these disagreements are the outcrop of a never-ending power struggle that does not allow the republic to stabilize its political system.
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See: The Constitution of the Republic of Georgia of 1921, Art 70.
See: Ibid., Art 67.
See: The 1995 Constitution of Georgia, Art 50.2 (1999 amendments).
Ibid., Chapter 4, Art 69.1.
The Constitution of Georgia, original version, 1995. Chapter 1, Art 2.3.
[http://www.geostat.ge/?action=page&p_id=472&lang=geo].
The Constitution of Georgia, original version, Chapter 1, Art 4.1.
See: The 1995 Constitution of Georgia. Art 49.1; amendments of 12 March, 2008.
See: Ibid., Art 48.1; amendments of 24 September, 2009.
See: A. Sen, “Democracy as a Universal Value,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 10, No. 3, July 1999, p. 6.
G. Nodia, “What is Needed to Build Democracy,” Tabula (Tbilisi), 26 April- 2 May, 2010, p. 13 (in Georgian).
Ibid., p. 12.
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