YEREVAN. – According to the Central Election Commission of Georgia, fourteen political parties and two political blocs have been given the right to run in the country’s parliamentary elections slated for October 1, Georgian Studies specialist Alik Eroyants said during a press conference on Monday.     

To the query on Georgian Armenians’ format of participation in these elections, Eroyants responded that five and two Armenian MP candidates will vie for parliamentary seats from the ruling party and the opposition bloc respectively, but , by and large, the Georgian Armenians will support the ruling regime.

He also noted that Armenian-Georgian ties are on a very high level, and this is proved by the intergovernmental meetings  and the cooperation in a variety of domains. So, “Armenia’s authorities need to be more consistent and to make Georgia’s attention focus on the problems of Georgian Armenians,” Alik Eroyants concluded.