Georgia’s pro-European president Salome Zourabishvili condemned the violent incidents that marked Saturday’s parliamentary elections. Violations of the rules are also reported, due to which the results will be declared invalid in one place. The government’s Georgian Dream is the favorite in the elections. However, the main question of the election will be whether the opposition coalitions can form a majority.
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Demonstration in Tbilisi in the spring of 2024 against the adoption of the “Russian law” | Photo: Hans Lucas, Maxime Gruss | Source: Reuters
“I want to draw attention to the very disturbing incidents of violence at various polling stations,” the AFP agency quoted Zurabishvili as saying on social media.
The Georgian media reported, for example, that a fight broke out near a polling station in the Tbilisi region, involving dozens of people. Supporters of the ruling pro-Russian party Georgian Dream clashed with election observers.
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It also appeared on social networks video from the town of Marneuli, located a little over 40 kilometers south of Tbilisi, on which a certain man stuffs a bunch of tickets into the ballot box. According to the AP, the Ministry of the Interior said it had opened an investigation into the case, and the Central Election Commission announced it would declare the results at this point invalid. The government and the opposition blame each other for the incident.
According to many, Saturday’s election will decide the future direction of Georgia. According to the DPA agency, the government of the Georgian Dream is increasingly promoting a nationalist-conservative policy and is oriented towards Russia. He warns that if the opposition wins, war will break out.
The opposition wants to lead this South Caucasian country towards the European Union. Georgia is a candidate for EU membership, but the twenty-seventh country has suspended the accession process due to the policy of its government.
Georgian Dream has been in power for 12 years and according to pre-election polls, he will win the elections again. The question remains whether the opposition coalitions, which are four in total, can form a majority. The strongest opposition party is the center-right United National Party of former President Mikheil Saakashvili.
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Georgian Dream also started as a pro-European party. Its coat of arms still has yellow European stars on a blue background. Its founder, Bidzina Ivanishvili, began leaning towards Moscow due to domestic political tensions and after making his “first billion” in Russia.
Georgia did not impose any sanctions against Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, and in his last interview before the election, Ivanishvili essentially repeated the Kremlin’s statement about the alleged “global side of the war” and that Georgia would have to apologize to Russia and the Ossetians for the 2008 war.
However, Georgian society is very pro-European – according to government surveys, 70 to 80 percent of Georgians support membership of the European Union. This is a problem that Georgian Dream would have to address if it were to take over the government again.
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