By empty (11/9/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Acting Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairman Zurab Nonikashvili said on 9 November that four political parties that failed to comply with a legal requirement to submit to the CEC details of their expenditures during the 28 March parliamentary election campaign have been stripped of the right to contest future elections. The four parties are the Democratic Revival Union (headed by Aslan Abashidze, ousted former leader of the Adjaran Autonomous Republic), National Revival, the All-Georgian People\'s Alliance (formed in late 2003), and the National Democratic Party-Union of Traditionalists alliance. (Caucasus Press).