CEC registers Bakradze as presidential candidate
By Nazrin Gadimova
The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Georgia has registered leader of the parliamentary minority and former parliamentary speaker Davit Bakradze as the presidential candidate.
So far, the CEC registered the candidacy of Labor Party leader Shalva Natelashvili, head of the For a Fair Georgia Party Sergo Javakhidze, Giorgi Margvelashvili from the Georgian Dream-United Georgia and the leader of the Democratic Movement - United Georgia, Nino Burjanadze. The registered candidates also include Nestan Kirtadze, Levan Chachua, Avtandil Margiani, Giorgi Liluashvili and Mikheil Saluashvili.
More than 50 people have been nominated for president, 12 of them are from political parties.
According to experts, Margvelashvili, Burjanadze and Bakradze have higher chances of winning.
It will be the sixth presidential election after Georgia regained independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991. Incumbent Mikheil Saakashvili cannot re-run because of the two-term limit in the constitution.
Upon the inauguration of a new president in 2013, a series of constitutional amendments passed in the parliament of Georgia from 2010 to 2013 will go into effect. The amendments envisage significant reduction of the President's powers in favor of the Prime Minister.
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