Official Results of 2024 Vote: What They Show – Civil Georgia
Oct 27, 2024 · With over 99.97% of precincts counted, official results published by the Central Election Commission show the ruling Georgian Dream party winning parliamentary elections with 53.92% of the vote, while the combined share of four opposition coalitions that passed the election threshold totals 37.78%. The October 26 vote followed months of Georgian Dream's anti-democratic and anti-Western …
Georgia’s October 2024 Parliamentary Vote: Key Facts
Oct 25, 2024 · On October 26, Georgians cast their ballots in a pivotal parliamentary election, often described as a referendum on the country's choice between Russia and Europe. Pro-Western opposition alliances will seek to challenge the 12-year, increasingly authoritarian rule of Georgian Dream, a party founded and led by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili.
Civil Georgia – News from Tbilisi, Georgia
Dispatch: 2024, Georgia’s Year of Fireworks. In what has become a tradition, new years in Georgia begin before January 1. The year 2023 began on December 29, 2022, when People’s Power, the far-right offshoot of Georgian Dream, first announced that it …
GD Parliament Approves 2025 State Budget – Civil Georgia
On December 10, the Georgian Dream MPs sitting along approved the 2025 state budget with 88 votes in favor. The budget project was presented to the Parliament by the newly appointed Finance Minister Lasha Khutsishvili. Key components of the 2025 budget include projections for economic growth of 6%, maintained by a consistent deflator rate of …
2024 | Chronicle of Repression – Civil Georgia
Dec 30, 2024 · The past year in Georgia has been marked by an unprecedented number of physical and verbal attacks on the opposition, CSOs and media representatives, and activists. The ruling Georgian Dream party has subjected the active part of the Georgian society to systematic repression, carried out both by official state bodies and by thugs, who attack …
Watchdog Assesses Corruption, Judiciary, Oversight, Media in …
Oct 22, 2024 · Transparency International - Georgia, a local corruption watchdog, released a detailed report describing the situation in four aspects of democracy, namely corruption, the judiciary, parliamentary oversight, and the media environment in Georgia for the last four years 2020-2024. "Ahead of the crucial parliamentary elections, the democratic situation in the country has worsened alarmingly," the ...
Georgian Dream’s Oppressive Anti-LGBT Law Comes into Effect
Dec 2, 2024 · Georgian Dream's homophobic and transphobic law "On the Protection of Family Values and Minors," adopted in September, comes into force on December 2. The repressive law, introduced as part of Georgian Dream's hate-laced election campaign, imposes several restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly for queer people, bans gender reassignment surgeries and legal procedures for gender ...
Election 2024 Results: Interactive Map – Civil Georgia
Oct 27, 2024 · According to the Central Election Commission (CEC), 2,060,412 voters had cast their ballots in the parliamentary elections by 8pm on 26 October, representing 58.94% of the total electorate. Below is an interactive map showing the results of the hotly contested vote. The map also shows the aggregate result for the polling stations abroad. Follow our Election Live …
US FARA vs. Georgian Foreign Agents Law: Three Major Differences
Apr 11, 2024 · For well over a year, we have heard Georgian Dream call their proposed law on Foreign Agents an “American law.” And during the same time, we have heard opponents of the law call it a Russian law. While there has been an abundance of rhetoric on the subject, there has been very little factual or …
GD Elected President Kavelashvili Signs Into Law Repressive …
Dec 30, 2024 · On December 29, Georgian Dream's elected President Mikheil Kavelashvili approved several legislative amendments on the day of his inauguration, immediately after being sworn. The amendments had been adopted by GD's Parliament during the third reading on December 13 in an expedited manner. The changes in legislation have drawn strong criticism from non-governmental organizations, which say …