Georgian Labor Party

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The headquarters of the Georgian Workers' Party in Tbilisi

The Georgian Workers' Party ( Georgian საქართველოს ლეიბორისტული პარტია, Sakartvelos Leiboristuli Partia ; also Schromis ) is a left , socialist party in Georgia . It was founded in 1995. Its chairman, the lawyer Shalva Natelashvili , was one of the most popular politicians in the country until 2003.

Content profile

The Labor Party takes a socialist stance, advocating free health care, free educational institutions and free social services. She opposes the privatization of strategically important companies that are Georgian state-owned. Illegally privatized companies are to be nationalized, and small and medium-sized enterprises are to be promoted; In addition, she opposes Georgia's military engagement in Iraq .

The Labor Party has around 90,000 members, of which around 15,000 are active (1999). It mainly attracts older voters. She achieved great success in the Georgian regional elections in 1998 and 2002. In Tbilisi City Council occupies one of 37 seats. In the parliamentary elections in 1999, she failed with 6.82% of the vote at the seven percent hurdle. In the elections on March 28, 2004, it only received 3.89% of the vote, and in the Georgian Parliament can only rely on four MPs who won direct seats. In the local elections in October 2006 it received an average of 6.42% of the vote.

history

During the Rose Revolution in November 2003, the party and its leader opposed the uprising. In 2004 Natelashvili sharpened the fundamentally oppositional course with anti-Semitic clichés and called on the population to civilly disobey the government. He warned of an alleged threat to Georgia from "American, Jewish and Armenian lobbies" who wanted to "steal culture, religion, belief and education" from the country. Many party members then left the party.

At that time, the party's reputation among the population sank to a low point. Since 2006, there have been signs that it is regaining support along with the government's dwindling reputation. In the Sunday question it was in February 2006 with 17.5% before the ruling party United National Movement with 16.6%.

In March 2005, the People's Democratic Union around Nestan Kirtadze joined the Labor Party. For the parliamentary by-elections on October 1, 2005, the Labor Party joined forces with the freedom movement , the Conservative Party and the Right Opposition parties to form an electoral alliance.

In 2007, the Georgian Labor Party and the German satirical party Die PARTEI agreed an alliance for mutual support.

The Workers 'Party has its own youth organization, the youth group of the Georgian Workers' Party , which was founded in 1997 and has around 25,000 members (1999). The party newspaper Leiboristi appears occasionally.

When the Stalin monument in Gori was removed on June 25, 2010 , party spokesman Kasha Dsagania alleged that this was outrageous vandalism. Saakashvili's government has moved in the direction of a regime like that of the Taliban .

literature

  • Ghia Nodia, Álvaro Pinto Scholtbach: The Political Landscape of Georgia: Political Parties: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects . Eburon, Delft 2006, ISBN 90-5972-113-6

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ http://www.georgien-nachrichten.de/index.php?rubrik=innenpolitik&cmd=n_einzeln&nach_id=17630 Article about the demolition of the Stalin monument