Leaders of several opposition parties in Georgia have said they will not recognize the results of the weekend’s national parliamentary vote. According to the official results, the ruling Georgian Dream party received almost 54% of the vote, while various opposition forces attracted between 11% and 3%.
Georgian Dream party chairman Mamuka Mdinaradze has claimed the party is likely to win at least 90 of the national chamber’s 150 seats, up from the 74 it won in the last election. The party will then be able to form the next government since a simple 76-strong majority is needed in Georgia to pick the next prime minister and cabinet.
Tina Bokuchava, who heads the pro-Western Unity-National Movement (UNM) party, has accused the nation’s central election committee of doing Georgian Dream’s bidding and of “stealing the European future” of Georgia.
“The European future” really giving the game away with that anti-Russian chauvinism.
Bokuchava also said on Sunday that she’d already met with Georgia’s Western-leaning president Salome Zourabichvili, describing the meeting as “very important.” According to media in Georgia, the president has met with representatives of several opposition groups on Sunday, including the UNM and ‘Strong Georgia.’
Not good.
Salome Zourabichvili has claimed that the vote was won by what she called “European Georgia,” and despite alleged “attempts to rig elections.”
Georgian Dream’s Mdinaradze responded to the president’s statements by calling her an “agent” of the opposition radicals. “Georgia no longer has a president. Georgia has an agent, a leader of the radical opposition… the main coordinator,” the politician stated on Sunday.
Georgian Dream seem to be whatever else they are as not comprador lap-dogs of the west, maybe not entirely pro-Russian but realistic, they’re the ones who pushed through the law forcing outing of foreign funding for NGOs which resulted in an attempted color revolution that failed.
Thanks for posting about this. I was actually looking for a good source to share.
Also, just fyi for those unfamiliar with the political situation in Georgia, a few tidbits of info:
The current president of Georgia who is conspiring with the opposition to try and deny the result of the election is actually a French citizen educated in the US. She barely even speaks Georgian.
The opposition is deeply tied not just to western intelligence agency funded NGOs but also to the Ukrainian Nazi movement, and a prominent Nazi who participated in the mass murder of pro-Russian protesters in Odessa in 2014 has recently been seen in Tbilisi.
Also, a bunch of Ukrainian and European politicians were literally on the ground and took part in the last attempt to overthrow the Georgian govenrnment when the opposition astroturfed protests against the anti-NGO law.
And yeah, i know that some people have pointed out in the past that Georgian Dream is by no means perfect and is or has been in the past associated with some notorious Georgian oligarchs with ties to the West (though, after all, the same can be said for Putin’s party too). The fact remains that if both Nazis and Western imperialists want to overthrow you, you must be doing something right.
seems like it’s the same strategy used over and over again