News - President announces Georgia parliamentary election day

President Salome Zourabichvili signed a decree on live broadcast on holding parliamentary elections in Georgia on October 26, NewsGeorgia reports. But this is a formal symbolic act. According to the constitution, regular parliamentary elections in Georgia are held "on the last Saturday of October of the calendar year in which the term of office of the parliament expires." The election campaign season officially starts simultaneously with the designation of the election day in Georgia,. "I have signed a decree on announcing elections. The day of decision, the day of election, the day of salvation has come. We are not dealing with ordinary elections, when the citizen chooses which political force is closest to his worldview, but we are dealing with saving the future of the country. Our current election is existential, this election will determine the fate of the country for many years," Zourabichvili stated in the briefing.