Their impending resignation was confirmed today when the ruling Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia (GDDG) party released a list naming its top 10 party candidates.
Both Kaladze and Danelia will participate in the upcoming elections with the GDDG party.
Kaladze was named number two on the GDDG party list, while Danelia will compete as the party’s majoritarian candidate in Georgia’s Martvili-Abasha areas in western Samegrelo region.
Today was the final day political parties could present their party lists to Georgia’s Central Election Commission (CEC).
According to Georgia’s Election Code, politicians in certain positions were prohibited from retaining their official posts if they appeared on a party list.
Minister of Agriculture has been named as the GDDG majoritarian candidate.
The Election Code stated these people must resign from their roles within two days of the party list being presented to the CEC, as their participation in the election was a conflict of interest with their current role.
Georgia’s two outgoing ministers
Danelia was appointed as Georgia’s Agriculture Minister in July 2014, while Kaladze gained the role of Energy Minister in October 2012, shortly after the Georgian Dream coalition defeated United National Movement’s nine-year rule through the 2012 Parliamentary Elections.
Georgia has a mixed electoral system in which 73 lawmakers are elected in 73 single-member constituencies. Generally known as a majoritarian mandate, candidates must gain 50 percent of votes in order to be an outright winner, otherwise a second round of voting must be held.
The remaining 77 seats are allocated proportionally under the party-list contest among other political parties who clear the five percent threshold in the nationwide vote.
According to the CEC, 3,510,514 voters were registered to vote in next month’s elections.
Thirty-one election subjects including 25 political parties and six election blocs will compete in the 2016 Parliamentary Elections.
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