Georgia is preparing for crucial legislative elections for the country’s future in the European Union. The anti-Western ruling party hopes to obtain a large majority.
An election poster showing a destroyed church in Ukraine warns Georgians. In the streets of Tbilisi, posters for Saturday’s parliamentary elections are everywhere.
The country, whose EU accession process was frozen after the adoption of a Russian-influenced law, is preparing for crucial legislative elections on Saturday.
The ruling party is chaired by a businessman who has called the West the “global war party”.
The ruling party, openly anti-Western and accused of being pro-Russian, hopes to obtain a comfortable majority in Parliament.
“Peace must be protected and preserved, especially today, when external and internal enemies are trying to open a second front in Georgia, drag the country into war and lay waste to our cities, our villages and our children This is why today we protect not only peace, but also life and the future.declared Bidzina Ivanishvili, honorary president of the Georgian Dream party, during a meeting in the capital.
Opposed to the government’s anti-European vision, demonstrators took to the streets of Tbilisi this week.
“This is probably the most important election we have had in years. We must choose between becoming an oppressive, hate-filled state or becoming an independent, European Georgia. We are at a crossroads between becoming a state with the pay of Russia or to be independent and free Georgian youth choose freedom.explains Tina Bezhanidze, economist.
In Brussels, these elections are considered crucial, as this vote appears to be a choice between the European Union and Russia.
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