The credentials of Georgia’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have been challenged on substantial grounds on the opening day of the 2025 winter plenary session.
Making the challenge, Boriana Åberg (Sweden, EPP/CD) said the Georgian Parliament was a “one-party parliament” and that the democratic order in Georgia was in the process of being demolished. She was supported by at least thirty members of the Assembly, belonging to at least five national delegations as required by the Rules.
The challenge was immediately referred without debate to the Assembly’s Monitoring Committee for report, and to the Rules Committee for opinion, and will be debated by the Assembly on the afternoon of Wednesday 29 January.
Under the Rules, the Assembly must vote for one of three options: to ratify the credentials, not to ratify them, or to ratify them “together with depriving or suspending the exercise of some of the rights of participation or representation of members of the delegation concerned in the activities of the Assembly and its bodies”.
The members of Georgia’s delegation may sit provisionally with the same rights as other Assembly members until the Assembly has reached a decision, but shall not vote in any proceedings relating to the examination of their credentials.
Politics
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