Text of report by Georgian news agency Iprinda
Tbilisi, 9th September: Fifty political parties and electoral
blocs will stand in the parliamentary elections [scheduled for
31st October; registration of political parties and electoral
blocs closed at the Central Electoral Commission on 8th
September].

The following political parties will stand in the
elections:

1. The Party of National Ideology of Georgia.
2. The political union of Citizens, the Union of Lecturers
of Georgia.
3. The Social Democratic Party of Georgia.
4. The Union for the Protection of the Poor.
5. The People's Democratic Party.
6. The Ketevan the Martyr Society.
7. The United Georgia Party.
8. The Union for the Protection of Pensioners' Rights.
9. The Georgian Party of the Economically and Socially
Disadvantaged People.
10. The Fate of Georgia political movement.
11. The Conservative (Monarchist) Party of Georgia.
12. The Support political union.
13. The Party for the Protection of Constitutional Rights.
14. The Conservative Party of Georgia.
15. The Labour Party of Georgia.
16. The Georgian Rightist Party.
17. The Union of Christian and Muslim Democrats.
18. The Party for the Consolidation of Citizens of Georgia
19. The All-Georgian Party (of the fighters in
Afghanistan) of Peace and Freedom.
20. The Veterans' Party of Georgia.
21. The Christian Democratic Union of Georgia.
22. The Democratic Centre.
23. The Party of Davit the Builder.
24. The Party of Greens of Georgia.
25. The Merab Kostava Society.
26. The Agrarian Party of Georgia.
27. The Nationalist Party of Georgia.
28. The All-Georgian Union of Agrarians.
29. The Joseph Stalin Society.
30. The National Popular Front of Georgia.
31. The League of Intellectuals of Georgia.
32. The Independence Party of Georgia.
33. The National Democratic Party of Georgia.
34. The Union of Social Justice of Georgia.
35. The League-Progress political union.
36. The Union of Georgian Nationalists.
37. The Union of Citizens of Georgia.

The following electoral blocs will stand in the elections:

1. The Round Table -Free Georgia bloc.
a. The Helsinki Union of Georgia -National Revival;
b. The Christian Conservative Party of Georgia;
c. The Royal League of Georgia;
d. The Christian and Social Union of Georgia;
e. The All-Georgian Society of Ilia the Righteous;
f. The People's Democratic Union -Christian-Democrats;
 
2. Communists -Stalinists bloc.
a. The Communist Party of Georgia;
b. The Stalinist political party;
3. The National Democratic Alliance -A Third Way bloc.
a. The National Democratic Party;
b. The Republican Party;
c. The Party of National Industry and Economic Revival
(The Party of Industrialists);
 
4. The United Communist Party (Stalinist) and Workers'
Councils bloc.
a. The United Communist Party of Georgia;
b. The Council of Workers of Georgia political union of
citizens;
 
5. The Revival of Georgia bloc.
a. The Union for Democratic Revival;
b. The Socialist Party of Georgia;
c. The Union of Georgian Traditionalists;
d. The Konstantine Gamsakhurdia Society;
e. The Chqondideli movement for freedom and unity of
Georgia;
f. The Call of Nation movement for Georgia's salvation;
 
6. The Victorious Georgia -Divine Temple bloc.
a. The national and state union of Georgia, Victorious;
b. The Union of the Realists of Georgia;
 
7. The National Front -Ilia Chavchavadze Society bloc.
a. The National Front of Georgia;
b. The Ilia Chavchavadze Society;
 
8. The Party of National Unity of Georgia bloc.
a. The Party of National Unity of Georgia;
b. The Political League of Mountainous People of Georgia;

9. The United Nationalist Movement bloc.
a. The Political Union of Citizens -United Nationalist
Movement;
b. The Union of Sportsmen of Georgia;

10. Industry Will Save Georgia bloc.
a. Industry Will Save Georgia political movement;
b. Movement for the State of Georgia political union;
c. The Union of Reformists and Agrarians of Georgia;
d. Georgia Above All political union of citizens of
Georgia, nationalist movement;
e. The Sporting Georgia political union;

11. People's Party -Didgori bloc.
a. The People's Party;
b. The Didgori Party of independence and unity of Georgia;
c. The People's Union;

12. The 21st Century -Georgian Nationalism bloc.
a. The political union, Heart of Georgia -21st;
b. The Motherland political union of citizens;
c. The Union for the Protection of Women;

13. The Revived Communists and People's Patriots bloc.
a. The Revived Communist Party of Georgia;
b. The Democratic Union of Georgia.

Source: Iprinda news agency, Tbilisi, in Georgian 0945 gmt 9
Sep 99
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