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Compiled By Inna Egieva
Thursday, February 19
Receiving gifts will be forbidden
Sakartvelos Respublika reports that Government employees and their families will no longer be able to receive expensive presents. This change will be incorporated in a new Act of Parliament.
The draft proposal says that a public official may receive gifts if their value is not more than 10% of his gross wage, or in case of a single present not more than 1% of his monthly income.
Members of the family of a public official are allowed to receive presents worth not more than 1,000 GEL in a given year, or 500 GEL for an individual gift.
Khidasheli comments on Alasania’s prospects
Rezonansi writes that Tina Khidasheli, one of the leaders of the Republican Party, has stated that only time will show how successful Irakli Alasania and his new political team will be.
“The ex-Ambassador of Georgia to the UN has presented his new team. Many of them are very honourable persons and my friends also, and over the years have shown their experience. But how successful they will be the future will show us, although I am almost certain they will succeed,” Khidasheli stated.
Turks are dismissing Georgian workers
Sakartvelos Respublika reports that the Labour Party has demand that the contractor of the Tbilisi Central Railway Station reemploys all the Georgian workers it has dismissed.
Secretary of the Labour Party Paata Jibladze stated at a press conference that a Turkish company won the tender to refurbish the Central Railway Station. This company has dismissed 50 Georgian workers, but all its Turkish workers are still employed.
“The statements and actions of our Government are two different things. All tenders are won by foreign companies which want to employ their own countrymen. Therefore Georgian workers are left without jobs, and nobody thinks about their welfare,” Paata Jibladze stated.
Kereselidze replaces Bendukidze
Sakartvelos Respublika writes that Davit Kereselidze is the the head of the State Chancellery.
Kereselidze is a lawyer. He was the deputy of Kakha Bendukidze, the formmer head of the Chancellery, who left his post a week ago.
Sakartvelos Respublika reports that Government employees and their families will no longer be able to receive expensive presents. This change will be incorporated in a new Act of Parliament.
The draft proposal says that a public official may receive gifts if their value is not more than 10% of his gross wage, or in case of a single present not more than 1% of his monthly income.
Members of the family of a public official are allowed to receive presents worth not more than 1,000 GEL in a given year, or 500 GEL for an individual gift.
Khidasheli comments on Alasania’s prospects
Rezonansi writes that Tina Khidasheli, one of the leaders of the Republican Party, has stated that only time will show how successful Irakli Alasania and his new political team will be.
“The ex-Ambassador of Georgia to the UN has presented his new team. Many of them are very honourable persons and my friends also, and over the years have shown their experience. But how successful they will be the future will show us, although I am almost certain they will succeed,” Khidasheli stated.
Turks are dismissing Georgian workers
Sakartvelos Respublika reports that the Labour Party has demand that the contractor of the Tbilisi Central Railway Station reemploys all the Georgian workers it has dismissed.
Secretary of the Labour Party Paata Jibladze stated at a press conference that a Turkish company won the tender to refurbish the Central Railway Station. This company has dismissed 50 Georgian workers, but all its Turkish workers are still employed.
“The statements and actions of our Government are two different things. All tenders are won by foreign companies which want to employ their own countrymen. Therefore Georgian workers are left without jobs, and nobody thinks about their welfare,” Paata Jibladze stated.
Kereselidze replaces Bendukidze
Sakartvelos Respublika writes that Davit Kereselidze is the the head of the State Chancellery.
Kereselidze is a lawyer. He was the deputy of Kakha Bendukidze, the formmer head of the Chancellery, who left his post a week ago.