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abomvubusohttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50554510
In Georgia (the country Georgia), the ruling party Georgian Dream of oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili has found itself in a very difficult situation. Ongoing mass protests are demanding their resignation from power and new elections with a purely proportional system (as promised). The protest is not only supported by the radical opposition (generally associated with former president Mikheil Saakashvili) and his United National Movementm but also those who are opposed to the latter, including some pro-Russian parties.
The so called "Dreamers" actually earned all this trouble for themselves on their own. In summer, while there were still some protests against Russian MP Sergei Gavrilov (and Orthodox Assembly leader) chairing an actual session of the Georgian parliament, president Ivanishvili promised a set of law changes that would make the electoral system completely proportional, and with a zero percent barrier for entry into parliament (something unprecedented!) But as soon as time came for voting on those bills, a nmber of his MPs backpedaled. And then crap hit the fan: mass protests in front of the parliament and other government institutions, tent camps on the main Rustaveli boulevard in Tbilisi, etc.
( All of this kind of resembles the 2003 Rose Revolution )
In Georgia (the country Georgia), the ruling party Georgian Dream of oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili has found itself in a very difficult situation. Ongoing mass protests are demanding their resignation from power and new elections with a purely proportional system (as promised). The protest is not only supported by the radical opposition (generally associated with former president Mikheil Saakashvili) and his United National Movementm but also those who are opposed to the latter, including some pro-Russian parties.
The so called "Dreamers" actually earned all this trouble for themselves on their own. In summer, while there were still some protests against Russian MP Sergei Gavrilov (and Orthodox Assembly leader) chairing an actual session of the Georgian parliament, president Ivanishvili promised a set of law changes that would make the electoral system completely proportional, and with a zero percent barrier for entry into parliament (something unprecedented!) But as soon as time came for voting on those bills, a nmber of his MPs backpedaled. And then crap hit the fan: mass protests in front of the parliament and other government institutions, tent camps on the main Rustaveli boulevard in Tbilisi, etc.
( All of this kind of resembles the 2003 Rose Revolution )
