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Members of Georgian Dream’s electoral list. Photo via Georgian Dream/Facebook.

2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections

Bidzina Ivanishvili tops Georgian Dream election list

by OC Media

•4 min read

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

Georgian Dream celebrates exit poll results in October 2021. Photo: Mariam Nikuradze/OC Media

Analysis

Datablog | Is People’s Power designed to make Georgian Dream look good?

by Koba Turmanidze

•3 min read

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

Georgian Dream chair Irakli Kobakhidze on Wednesday. Screenshot from Rustavi 2

Freedom of Expression

Ruling party chair expresses support for Georgian foreign agent law

by Tata Shoshiashvili

•3 min read

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

by Tata Shoshiashvili

•5 min read

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

by Shota Kincha

•4 min read

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

Georgia

Podcast | Georgian Dream's Departed and sex tapes as weapons in Azerbaijan

by OC Media

•1 min read

In this week’s episode of the Caucasus Digest, OC Media’s Editor-in-Chief, Robin Fabbro, talks to Ismi Aghayev about the latest sex tape scandal in the Azerbaijani Ministry of Emergency Situations, and the history of sexual intimidation in the country. Read More: * Azerbaijani colonel’s sex tapes latest in culture of sexual intimidation * Opinion | In Azerbaijan sex is a weapon Mariam Nikuradze talks about the four ex-members of Georgian Dream who have left the ruli

The MPs behind the statement earlier this month announced they were launching a ‘public movement’ called People’s Power.

19 April Agreement

Ivanishvili supporters accuse the US of attempting coup in Georgia

by Shota Kincha

•6 min read

Four Georgian MPs and staunch supporters of Bidzina Ivanishvili have accused the US of attempting to orchestrate a coup in Georgia. On Thursday, the four MPs, who on paper left the ruling Georgian Dream party this summer to enable them to ‘speak more openly’, levelled a raft of accusations against the US, while once again leaping to the defence of Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili. In a joint statement, Sozar Subari, Mikheil Kavelashvili, Dimitri Khundadze, and Guram Macharashvili s