Georgia satser på Putin og følger opp hans politikk overfor kritikere

 

Georgia is dousing the last embers of democracy

An oligarchic party outlaws the opposition and turns towards Russia

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Nov 9th 2025|TBILISI|5 min read

IN MANY FORMERLY democratic countries, the 

road to one-party rule has been long and 

winding. Georgia’s ruling Georgian 

Dream (GD) party seems to have decided to take 

the expressway. On November 6th prosecutors 

charged eight of the country’s leading opposition 

figures, including a former president, Mikheil 

Saakashvili, with plotting to carry out a coup. 

They face up to 15 years in prison. Six are already 

behind bars. A week earlier, GD had asked the 

country’s constitutional court to outlaw 

Georgia’s three largest opposition parties.