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Georgian gov't to face 2nd confidence vote after mass cabinet resignation

Xinhua, April 29, 2015 Adjust font size:

Georgia's government will face a second confidence vote as Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs, Levan Kipiani, resigned on Wednesday.

Kipiani became the third cabinet member to step down in a week and the seventh since the incumbent government won Parliament's confidence vote in July 2014.

One day before his resignation, Environment Minister Elguja Khokrishvili resigned, citing family reasons. Only a week earlier, Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development Davit Shavliashvili was replaced.

Under the Georgian constitution, the replacement of over one third of a 20-member cabinet calls for a new confidence vote in the Georgian Parliament.

According to the constitution, the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) coalition, which forms the majority in the Parliament, will have to name a candidate for prime minister. The candidate will have to name cabinet members and submit them to the Parliament for a confidence vote within the next seven days.

The cabinet will be approved if it receives at least 76 votes in the 150-seat Parliament. Endi