A few days after the legislative elections of October 26 in Georgia, the contested result of which gave 54% of the votes to the populist Georgian Dream party in power, the pro-European opposition, supported by the European Union (EU) and the United States, demands that the “significant irregularities” noted during the vote be corrected, or even to organize new elections. With what chances of success?
For Thorniké Gordadzé, former Georgian minister responsible for European Integration under the presidency of Mikheïl Saakashvili, there is no doubt: the result of the legislative elections of October 26 in Georgia was truncated by the ruling party, Georgian Dream, of oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili. For him, this party certainly did not win, with 54% of the votes. “The polls coming out of the polls gave them 40% of the votes, so they decided to add around fifteen points, or around 300,000 votes out of 2 million votes », Estimates the man who is also a political scientist specializing in the Caucasus, researcher at the Jacques Delors Institute and Sciences Po.
