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097334
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ID:
125221
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2013.
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A strange thing happened in Georgia last October. After an extremely contentious election season in which Bidzina Ivanishvili, the leader of the opposition, was stripped of his citizenship and fined millions of dollars, in which opposition activists were regularly harassed and arrested, and in which the media was dominated by the government, the opposition surprised many Western observers and governments by scoring a decisive victory and winning control of Parliament. Then an even stranger thing happened. The day after the election, the ruling party of Georgia, President Mikheil Saakashvili's United National Movement (UNM), gracefully conceded defeat to the new Prime Minister Ivanishvili's Georgian Dream (GD) coalition.
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ID:
114968
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2012.
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Georgia is preparing itself for parliamentary elections in 2012 and a presidential contest in 2013. The country's Western allies see these elections as critical tests for Georgian democracy. This argument is comforting if for no other reason than its familiarity. But given the concentration of power in Georgian politics, and the limits on media, associational life and political activity in Georgia today, it is not likely that the next elections, without substantial changes to the political system, will move Georgian democracy forward. By looking at these elections entirely through the lens of democratic advance or retreat, the United States and Europe will be largely unprepared to see the other important impacts upon Georgian political development and the Georgian regime.
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ID:
054296
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ID:
109151
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ID:
122110
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2013.
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On the evening of October 1st, only a few minutes after the polls closed for the parliamentary elections, Tbilisi and other Georgian cities were the sites of widespread celebrations of the type usually reserved for major political upheavals and victories over Russia in soccer or rugby. Cars honked their horns while waving the blue-and-gold flag of the Georgian Dream party; thousands of people clogging the streets were yelling enthusiastically. Georgian Dream was already staging a large victory rally on Tbilisi's Freedom Square on the basis of an exit poll done by a major American polling firm that showed their candidates leading those of the government's United National Movement (UNM) party by a margin of roughly two to one, which meant that President Mikheil Saakashvili had been defeated at the polls and that a major change had come to Georgia.
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