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Not read article yet, but does look like this is getting exposure.
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Aside from criticism over economic freedom, the five US congressmen also addressed Facebook’s recent move to shut down a vast network of fake accounts linked to the ruling party, and reports claiming that prosecutors appointed by Georgian Dream had reopened old cases against potential political opponents, as a decline in the country’s democratic values.
Georgia’s domestic politics became turbulent last summer amidst mass protests against the government over its allegedly soft stance on Russia, as well as its backtracking on electoral reforms that would have seen the 2020 general election run under proportional representation. The government was also criticised for appointing Supreme Court judges who have close ties to the ruling party.
As pointed out by Mr Gigitashvili, the latest poll of the US-based National Democratic Institute shows that 59 per cent of the Georgian public does not regard their country as a democracy, with 64 per cent of them assessing the government’s performance negatively. “These figures are much higher compared to previous years and it shows that trust to country’s political institutions is eroding,” he says, underlining that “the key problem is the state capture caused by an increasing informal control of Georgian Dream leader Bidzina Ivanishvili over key state institutions, which undermines the balance between government branches.”
“Most of the key decisions in state institutions are made in favour of certain groups and no longer based on public interest. The government’s recent refusal to switch to a fully proportional system for the 2020 parliamentary elections was an explicit example of this trend,” he stresses.
Responding to the US criticism, the Georgian prime minister said that his government was always ready to discuss such issues with Georgia’s strategic partners.
“Georgia is developing the fastest growing and most stable economy in the region. We will explain this to our friends and colleagues in details, in figures, certain examples and results, which we are achieving together every day,” Mr Gakharia told reporters on January 23.
Source - https://emerging-europe.com/news/is-economic-freedom-in-georgia-under-threat/