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By Ann Tsurtsumia-Zurabashvili (@TsurtsumiaA ) This post was originally published in Presidential Power and is available here Election date misunderstanding Under the constitution, the Georgian Parliament’s 150 members serve four-year terms, with 77 seats set by proportional representation and 73 in single-seat constituencies. Georgia’s constitution calls for the next parliamentary elections to be held in October, with the country’s…

By Eugene Huskey This post was originally published in Presidential Power and is available here As the widely-followed American presidential primaries wound down, Russia was quietly experimenting with its own version of political primaries.[i]  For the first time in Russian history, a political party, United Russia, used a nationwide primary election to select its parliamentary candidates, who will…