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Saturday will be a day of sorrow.

#Georgia’s heroine of democracy, President Salome Zourabichvili, will be replaced. Not because she is not popular — she was elected by the people.

But the ruling parliament has voted to remove the people’s right to vote. Instead, the president will now be chosen by an electoral college, in which 211 out of 300 members belong to the Putin faithful nightmare party ironically named “Georgian Dream”.

A Putin puppet will win.
The Georgian people will lose.

💔 🇬🇪

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President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili affirmed her commitment to staying in office during a press briefing, emphasizing the need for legitimate leadership in the country during this critical moment.

“I’m here, and I will remain here because this country urgently needs a legitimate institution. If anyone in this country truly wants peace, if anyone wants to emerge from this crisis victorious in any form, there is only one path forward—elections."

#Georgia

frontnews.ge/en/president-zour

President Zourabichvili: “I’m not leaving—Georgia needs legitimate institution right now”
Front News - Georgia · President Zourabichvili: "I’m not leaving—Georgia needs legitimate institution right now" - FrontNewsENGPresident of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili affirmed her commitment to staying in office during a press briefing, emphasizing the need for legitimate leadership
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Georgian Parliamentary Democracy, Georgian Dream style.

In a nutshell, because the opposition parties refuse to attend parliament after an illegitimate election, the ruling Georgian Dream party is splitting itself in half to create two parties so it looks like they have an opposition in parliament.

The punchline is that the new "People's Power" pretend opposition party is even more right wing and more pro-Russian than the government.

Everything's fine....

#Georgia

netgazeti.ge/news/756091/

NETGAZETI.ge · „ხალხის ძალა“ ფსევდოოპოზიციას ქმნის - Netgazetiქართული ოცნება • „ხალხის ძალა“ •
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"This is not even funny anymore. The so-called “People’s Power Party" who officially left Georgian Dream Party (GD) after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine to “criticize the West more openly,” rejoined GD for the elections and ran on their list.

Now, they are declaring that they’re leaving GD once again to create a “healthy opposition.”

Mikheil Kavelashvili, GD's presidential candidate, is a member of “People’s Power.”

Anna Gvarishvili,
Georgian journalist.

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⁠We published an exclusive excerpt from Ayurella Muller-Horn's new book which explored kudzu, "the vine that ate the South", as a metaphor for her upbringing as a second-generation Asian immigrant. (/4)

thexylom.com/post/perspective-

The Xylom · For Ayurella Horn-Muller, Kudzu is a Personal Story of Immigration and the SouthAfter all, kudzu’s war with cultural perception in the States is something I identify with.

In Tbilisi, representatives of the IT industry are protesting against the policies of the "Georgian Dream" party and violence against citizens.

Georgian IT workers have declared a two-day warning strike and are marching from the First Republic Square to the Parliament building.