Reports
PRE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN OF FAR-RIGHT POLITICAL GROUPS IN THE 2024 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
30.01.2025
Democracy research center studied the activities of far-right political unions for the 2024 parliamentary elections.
Against the background of the electoral threshold having been increased to 5% for the parliamentary elections of 26 October 2024, openly pro-Russian, far-right and conservative parties decided to unite and create an alternative to Georgian Dream and National Movement in the parliamentary elections. According to the information published on 10 July 2024 on the Facebook page of Alliance of Patriots of Georgia, it became known to the public that Conservative Movement/Alt-Info, Georgian Idea, Georgian Mission, Conservative-Monarchist Party, Christian-Democratic Movement and National Unity would take part in the parliamentary elections of October 26, 2024 in affiliation with Alliance of Patriots of Georgia and within the party list of the latter. On 26 June 2024, the leaders of 18 conservative parties and public organisations signed the Declaration of Unification of Georgian Patriots.
The pre-election consolidation of the pro-Russian forces was preceded by the decision of the National Public Registry Agency invalidating the registration of Conservative Movement/Alt-Info. The information about the invalidation of the registration of Conservative Movement/Alt-Info became known on 8 April 2024.
In response to the decision of the Public Registry, on 13 April 2024, Alt-Info held a rally near Georgian Dream’s headquarters in Tbilisi. The leader of the party, Zurab Makharadze, announced at the rally that they would participate in the elections in the name of Georgian Idea. However, by the decision of 25 April 2024, the Central Election Commission suspended the examination of the election registration procedures of Georgian Idea. Georgian Idea had been registered as a political association in 2014. Its pro-Russian and homophobic statements distinguish it.
The above-mentioned tense political processes preceded the affiliation of Conservative Movement/Alt-Info with Alliance of Patriots. Alliance of Patriots was the only pro-Russian and far-right electoral entity that passed the electoral threshold and, therefore, did not need to collect voters’ signatures to participate in the 2024 elections.
Georgian Dream accelerates Georgia’s isolation from the democratic world by charges of sabotage and banning of parties
After the European Commission published a harsh assessment about Georgia, the Prosecutor’s Office charged opposition leaders with serious crimes against the State.
06.11.2025
DRI: Repressive legislative amendments completely abolish freedom of assembly and expression
DRI echoes another repressive and authoritarian legislative initiative intorduced in the
one-party Parliament, the purpose of which
is to completely disregard the right to assembly and
expression.
13.10.2025
ქართული უფლებადაცვითი ორგანიზაციების ერთობლივი განცხადება
იურიდიული დახმარების ქსელი ყოველდღიურ რეჟიმში შეზღუდული
რესურსებით აგრძელებს შეკრებისა და გამოხატვის თავისუფლებით სარგებლობისას დაზარალებული პირების
უფლებების დაცვას.
10.10.2025
