In Georgia this Monday at midday, the ruling party, the Georgian Dream, invests its new Parliament despite the controversial results of the parliamentary elections of October 26, to say the least. For a month now, the opposition has been denouncing massive fraud and intimidation which led to a usurpation of victory.
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With our correspondent in Tbilisi, Régis Gente
The protest took place in a context of Georgia’s return to the Russian orbit under the leadership of the country’s strong man, the oligarch Bitzina Ivanishvili, despite the pro-Western aspirations of the vast majority of the 3.7 million of Georgians.
This Sunday evening, there were a few thousand opponents defying power in the streets of Tbilisi, with the ambition of surrounding the Parliament, pitching tents there to prevent the 89 deputies of the ruling party, the Georgian Dream, from ‘install the 11th Parliament of the Georgia independent. But the crowd was thin, far from the tens of thousands of Georgians who, for two months in the spring, opposed the bill on foreign agentsrenamed “Russian law”.
Meanwhile, the movement grew tired in the face of a Georgian Dream that captured the full tools of the state and resorted to brutality. However, the installation of the said Parliament seems illegal, the president Salomé Zourabichvili having appeals to the Constitutional Court. This installation should be postponed until the court has rendered its verdict.
But the Georgian Dream is determined to move on, busy as it is to have it ratified the vote of October 26 and implement its promises. Promises which consist in particular of banning opposition parties and muzzling civil society.
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