A day after Tbilisi-based election observer non-governmental organization, New Generation-New Initiative (nGnI), stirred debate on election date by announcing intention to appeal Constitutional Court to move parliamentary polls from October to spring, said it was no longer planning to file a lawsuit.
nGnI said in a statement on February 17, that announcement about its plans to appeal court a day earlier stirred controversy with "political spectrum and other stakeholders opposing to even initiate this process" over moving the parliamentary election date from October, 2012 to this spring.
The group said that while it still remained on its position that it was unconstitutional to hold elections in October as it would extend sitting Parliament's four-year term in office for several months, it was dropping the plans to appeal the Constitutional Court.
nGnI, which was co-founded in 2003 by Koki Ionatamishvili who is now a member of Tbilisi City Council (Sakrebulo) from the ruling National Movement party said that "a political consensus over election date" was "an integral part" for holding election campaign in free and competitive environment.
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