Georgian Citizens Union
The Georgian Citizens' Union ( Georgian Sakartvelos Mokalaketa Kavshiri - SMK ) was a center-left oriented party in Georgia . It was founded in 1993 and dissolved in 2003. Her main concern was the support of Eduard Shevardnadze's presidency .
It united the parties of Tbilisi Citizens , Unity and Welfare (Georgian Ertoba da ketildgeoba ) and the Greens (Georgian Mtsvaneebi ) and had over 32,000 members, 9,600 of them women. The party chairman was Eduard Shevardnadze. In the parliamentary elections in November 1995, 23.71 percent of the voters of the SMK gave their vote, in the elections in October 1999 it was 41.8 percent. In the elections for the Tbilisi City Council on June 2, 2002, it slipped to three percent, failing the five percent hurdle . In October 2003 the party received 21.3 percent of the vote in the For a New Georgia block . The result was later canceled by the Supreme Court for fraudulent voting.
The party's motto A worthy president, a worthy parliament for a strong Georgia focused on the president. The declared aim of the Citizens' Union was to build a democratic, independent and economically strong Georgia. In addition to protecting civil rights and restoring Georgia's territorial integrity, the party also wanted to encourage citizens to participate more and to develop a new spirit of entrepreneurship.
The party played an important role in establishing stability and order in Georgia. She helped to stop the rule of the warlords and initiated institutional reforms in the economy and society. It integrated Georgia into international structures, initiated important projects such as TRASECA , the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline and control of the Georgian borders by its own border troops.
The Citizens' Union had observer status with the Socialist International and maintained close contacts with the British Labor Party , the German and Danish Social Democrats and the Azerbaijani ruling party New Azerbaijan .
Your youth organization was the Young Georgian Citizens' Union founded in 1994 with around 12,000 members (1999). The party published the weekly Mokalake (German citizen ) since 1996 .