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With Georgia’s parliamentary elections inching closer, both the ruling Georgian Dream party and the many groups representing the opposition are scrambling to prepare for the critical vote on 26 October.
This week, OC Media’s Robin Fabbro, Mariam Nikuradze, and Shota Kincha discuss how the pre-election campaign period has been going, claims of electoral violations by Georgian Dream, and the atmosphere in Georgia ahead of the vote.
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Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili had vowed to ‘apologise’ to South Ossetia over the former ruling UNM party’s actions in the August 2008 War.
Their former political party — the Conservative Movement party — was de-registered by Georgia’s Public Registry in April 2024.
Last year, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service claimed the US was planning to change the government in Georgia through a ‘color revolution’.
Zourabichvili named five points in her plan for new parliamentary elections in Georgia.
