Georgian Dream party fails to break ‘vicious circle’ serving to consolidate power: President

Georgian Dream party fails to break ‘vicious circle’ serving to consolidate power: President

Different opinions, political tastes beginning to leave Georgian Drea, says Salome Zurabishvili

By Gozde Bayar

ANKARA (AA) - Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili criticized the ruling “Georgian Dream” party Friday for failing to break the long-lasting “vicious circle” serving to consolidate power.

Zurabishvili told lawmakers that people with different opinions and political tastes were beginning to leave the Georgian Dream (GD).

“Among you, even a slightly different opinion is no longer heard, because it automatically means leaving the mandate,” she told members of the Georgian Dream in her annual report to parliament.

Highlighting signs of the growing ruling party’s influence on the government and parliament, she said: “The party has turned into a decision-making space.”

“Instead of strengthening state institutions as the cornerstone of the country’s democracy, the one-party system and its influence are becoming stronger,” she said.

The laws being passed at an accelerated pace do not serve to strengthen the country’s democracy or the well-being of its citizens but to strengthen and prolong power, she said.

“The leader of the party announces in advance his position on all political issues, and most importantly, the decision-making process has become opaque, let alone open discussion,” she said.

Regarding the GD government’s policy toward the Ukrainian war, the president accused the government of “failing to demonstrate either good diplomacy, wisdom or historical solidarity.”

She emphasized that despite joining various resolutions in support of Ukraine, “we have failed to extend any other moral and political solidarity.”


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