GEOpolitics Issue №07

The state capture in Georgia is now media and civil society. The article concludes almost complete. On May 28, 2024 that Ivanishvili’s influence has resulted in an eighty-four subservient MPs totally authoritarian regime with limited internal or ignored youth protests and armed external checks on his power, a situation that with party message box, ‘‘titushki” and ruthless riot police, passed the Russian-type law “on the transparency of foreign influence,” effectively announcing Orwellian 1984. The adoption of this law puts Georgian NGOs and Media in mortal danger, undermining Georgia’s democracy and turning Georgia away from the European integration track. The April 29 Speech by Bidzina Ivanishvili declared all opponents of the regime as foreign agents and potential objects of legal persecution. The only step remaining for Georgia to become fully authoritarian is the October 26 Parliamentary elections, which will determine the country’s trajectory for years to come. However, as academics and policy experts, while looking forward to the democratic transition of power, we still dwell on the analysis of what went wrong and how the Georgian Dream managed to capture the state institutions and stay in power for twelve years.

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