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That comes days after the ruling Georgian Dream party threatened to dissolve the biggest opposition grouping in parliament, the United National Movement (UNM) which was based by former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.
In addition to the UNM, the opposite pro-Western factions with seats in parliament face being shuttered, Kobakhidze stated, as a result of “in actuality, all of those are one political drive.” Any MPs elected on their platforms, he stated, could be barred from taking over workplace.
“I imagine that abolishing [parliamentary] mandates would be the logical continuation of outlawing these events. Criminal members of the legal political forces shouldn’t train the standing equivalent to that of a member of Georgia parliament,” stated Kobakhidze.
POLITICO approached the European Commission for touch upon Kobakhidze’s plans, which he claims is not going to stand in the way in which of becoming a member of the EU, however didn’t obtain an instantaneous response.
“This will successfully ban all opposition that Georgian Dream sees as a menace,” stated Tinatin Akhvlediani, a researcher on the Centre for European Policy Studies. “The solely parallels for this sort of factor are Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus, or North Korea — it could be the top of Georgia’s democracy.”
Opposition events have sought to hitch forces forward of the vote to defeat Georgian Dream, which has confronted widespread road protests in latest months over its introduction of a Russian-style legislation that manufacturers Western-backed NGOs and media shops as “international brokers.”
