2024 Georgian presidential elections
Georgian Dream elects ex-footballer and Ivanishvili loyalist as new president
The sole candidate, Mikheil Kavelashvili received 224 votes from the 300-member electoral college.
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Bidzina Ivanishvili
Georgian Dream satellite party People’s Power will exit majority to create ‘healthy opposition’
The sole presidential candidate in Saturday’s elections is one of the founding members of People’s Power.
2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections
Bidzina Ivanishvili tops Georgian Dream election list
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has presented the 20 top figures on Georgian Dream’s electoral list, with party founder Bidzina Ivanishvili topping the list. Before presenting the list on Tuesday, Kobakhidze spoke about the past four years, during which he recalled previous parliamentary election results and the opposition’s reaction to it and spoke about how Georgian Dream withdrew from an EU-brokered deal with the opposition. He also stated that the past four years were an ‘exam
Analysis
Datablog | Is People’s Power designed to make Georgian Dream look good?
A CRRC Georgia study found that positioning Georgian Dream as more moderate than its spin-off group, People’s Power, increased support for the ruling party. A popular study suggests that when a person goes for a date, they will be more liked if they take a similar, but slightly less attractive companion with them. Likewise, political parties often look better for their voters when they position themselves against a similar, but less appealing opponent. This blog shows how the same principl
Freedom of Expression
Ruling party chair expresses support for Georgian foreign agent law
The chair of Georgia’s ruling party, Irakli Kobakhidze, has appeared to lend his support to a proposed foreign agent law, as the US State Department expressed concerns that the law would be used to ‘stigmatise and silence independent voices’. The draft law was introduced on Tuesday by the anti-Western People’s Power group, a satellite group of the ruling Georgian Dream party and a member of the parliamentary majority. If adopted, the law would require non-governmental organisations and med
Freedom of Expression
Foreign agent law to be submitted to Georgian Parliament
A bill that would label media and civil society organisations that receive money from abroad ‘agents of foreign influence’ is to be submitted to the Georgian parliament, leading to fears of a crackdown similar to that in Russia. The bill is being submitted by People’s Power, a group of pro-government MPs who formally left the ruling Georgian Dream party — with the party’s support — to ‘speak openly’ about a supposed Western conspiracy to drag Georgia into war with Russia. Announcing the move
Georgia
Pro-government Georgian TV channel merges with anti-West group People’s Power
A TV channel dedicated to ‘exposing’ and criticising the Georgian Government’s liberal opposition has announced that it will become the media arm of People’s Power, a Georgian Dream spin-off group dedicated to criticising Georgia’s western partners. On Tuesday, POSTV announced that, in line with their previous ‘ideological platform’, they had become a media platform for People’s Power. The channel, which has previously been accused of supporting pro-Kremlin and far-right groups and engaging
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