Attempt to get independent voices on public TV board partially successful

December 18, 2009 by georgiamedia

Three of the "media club" candidates for the board of the public broadcaster were successful, marking a small step away from the current system of fully partisan control of national broadcasting in Georgia.

Nino Danelia, a media researcher, Lia Chakhunashvili, a senior academic and Shorena Shaverdashvili, editor of Liberali magazine were elected to the board alongside a Christian Democrat, a government employee and a man listed as "unemployed" but who shares a name with a former member of the Georgian parliament.

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