The key goal of the constitutional reform was to improve the democratic standards and to strengthen the Georgian democracy.

Today, we have a constitution, which is not in line with fundamental principles of constitutionalism, including with the principle of separation of powers that the Venice Commission emphasized in its final opinion in 2010. Therefore, our main task was to improve these shortcomings and to establish a system, which would ensure the country’s democratic development in the long-term perspective and prevent the return of autocracy.

The Constitutional Reform Commission and the Parliament of Georgia guided its work on this positive and very ambitious agenda, and the document that was developed achieves this very purpose entirely.

Under the current constitution, in the presence of relevant political will, it is possible to establish an autocratic system, while the new text of the constitution completely rules it out. This is the biggest achievement of the constitutional reform process.

A very sophisticated system of parliamentary form of government will be introduced in line with the best European practice. We are also moving to a [fully] proportional electoral system that is one of the major achievements of this constitutional reform as well. No government has managed to pursue this decision until today.

There is not a single article in the new constitution, through which the ruling party improves its subjective political positions. Moreover, it contains a number of articles, which weaken the ruling party positions and strengthen the opposition’s role in the political processes. All this is being done to further strengthen the democratic system in Georgia.

Once again, this is a system, which ensures irreversible development of democratic principles in our country. With this reform, we are changing the constitutional tradition and the constitutional culture in Georgia.