Eto Gagunashvili

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Eto Gagunahvili is a researcher at CRRC Georgia.

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Datablog | Georgians continue to support gender parity in parliament

by Eto Gagunashvili

•2 min read

More than half of the Georgian public support a gender-balanced parliament, with women, young people, and those not aligned with the ruling party more in favour of a 50/50 gender split. Legislation passed in Georgia in 2020 required parties to nominate at least one out of every four candidates on their electoral lists be women, to their electoral lists, with this number increasing to one in three by 2028, promoting women’s participation in politics. However, due to the first-past-the-post co

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Datablog | Georgians increasingly feel mistreated by the government

by Eto Gagunashvili

•3 min read

Recent CRRC Georgia data suggests that people in Georgia’s age and foreign policy preferences affect how they feel the government is treating them. The public’s perception of the fairness of the government’s actions is critical to governance and may reflect the quality of democracy in a country. Today, Georgians tend to feel like their country is no longer a democracy, while the public feels that people like them are not being treated fairly by the government. According to data CRRC Georgia

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Datablog | Support for gender equality in parliament is rising in Georgia

by Eto Gagunashvili

•2 min read

Despite the introduction of gender quotas, Georgia’s parliament remains an unequal place in terms of gender. However, the data suggests support for more women in politics is rising. Women have been and are underrepresented in Georgia’s parliament, with only 17% of seats held by women as of March 2021. This is despite the passage of gender quotas in 2020, according to which parties must nominate at least one woman for every four candidates. The discrepancy stems from a mixture of the mixed e

A protest outside the Prosecutor’s Office in June 2018. Photo: Dato Parulava/OC Media.

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Datablog | Do Georgians think the Prosecutor’s Office is biased?

by Eto Gagunashvili

•3 min read

The Georgian public has been in a near-perpetual state of shock in recent years over a stream of high-profile criminal cases. In many of these, the impartiality and effectiveness of the Prosecutor’s Office has come into question, but what do people really think about this vital institution? Cases like the Khorava Street Murders, the killing by the Security Services of Temirlan Machalikashvili, and most recently, the murder of 19-year-old Giorgi Shakarashvili have captured the public attention.

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