Former parliamentary speaker’s party nominates Tbilisi mayoral candidate

The Movement for Building opposition, created by Georgia’s former Parliament Speaker David Usupashvili, has named ex-Deputy Infrastructure Minister Tengiz Shergelashvili as its mayoral candidate in capital Tbilisi. 

Shergelashvili, who is a former member of the Republican Party, was actively involved in the local governments’ reform initiated by the Georgian Dream government in 2013-2014. 

Shergelashvili, together with Usupashvili and several others quit the Republican Party shortly after the 2016 Parliamentary Elections, in which the Republican Party failed to overcome the mandatory 5% threshold to have representatives in the 150-member legislative body, Agenda.ge recalls.