EA on TVP World: The Democracy Protests in Georgia

Posted by Scott Lucas | Dec 30, 2024 | 0

EA on TVP World: The Democracy Protests in Georgia

President Salome Zourabichvili addresses protesters at a rally in Tbilisi, Georgia, December 22, 2024

I joined Poland’s TVP World on Sunday for an analysis of the protests in Georgia, challenging the repression of the Government and claiming that recent elections were manipulated with Russian interference.

Immediately after the election, the ruling Georgian Dream party — founded by sanctioned businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, who made his fortune in Russia — postponed any talks about accession to the European Union until 2028. It rejected concerns about the vote, and installed the far-right activist Mikheil Kavelashvili as President.

The outgoing President, Salome Zourabichvili, refused to acknowledge Kavelashvili’s legitimacy and joined thousands of protesters outside the Presidential building on Saturday.

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Scott Lucas

Scott Lucas is Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham; and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView. He is a specialist in US and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran. Formerly he worked as a journalist in the US, writing for newspapers including the Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman before he founded EA WorldView in November 2008.

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