The credentials of the Georgian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe were challenged on Monday 27 January at the opening of the first plenary session of 2025.
At least 30 members of the Assembly from at least 5 national delegations supported Sweden’s Boriana Åberg (EPP), who had denounced this delegation from a “one-party” Parliament, namely the pro-Russian ‘Georgian Dream’ party.
This substantive challenge was referred without debate to the Assembly’s Monitoring Committee for report and to the Rules Committee for opinion. It will be debated in the afternoon of Wednesday 29 January.
The Assembly will then have three options: ratification of the credentials, non-ratification or ratification accompanied by the deprivation or suspension of certain rights such as the right to vote.
The members of the Georgian delegation will be able to sit and vote until Wednesday, but they will not be able to take part in the vote on the validation of their credentials. (Original version in French by Véronique Leblanc)