Georgian dream

Georgian dream
Party leader	Giorgi Kwirikashvili
founding	April 21, 2012
Place of foundation	Tbilisi
Headquarters	Tbilisi
Alignment	Catch-all party
Colours)	blue and orange
Parliament seats	115/150
International connections	Progressive Alliance
European party	Party of European Socialists (observer)
Website	41st ge

Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia ( Georgian ქართული ოცნება – დემოკრატიული საქართველო - kartuli otsneba – demociuli sakartvelo , KO ) is a political party alliance in Georgia . It was founded on April 19, 2012 and two months later united ten parties and civil movements. These include the citizens' movement Democratic Dream of the Franco-Georgian businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili , the Republican Party of Georgia , the Conservative Party of Georgia , the Party of Georgia Way , the Freedom Movement , the Movement for a United Georgia , the National Forum Party, the We Ourselves ( meanwhile: European Democrats of Georgia ) and the Georgian Group party . The Our Georgia Free Democrats party later joined .

aims

The entrepreneur Bidsina Ivanishvili was the initiator of the Georgian Dream party alliance

Graffiti with the logo of the Georgian Dream, Tbilisi

The goal of the electoral alliance was to replace the government of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in the parliamentary elections on October 1, 2012, which was finally achieved. There is no political program. Its members include free-market and pro-Western liberals, radical nationalists with xenophobic rhetoric, and politicians from the environment of the former President Eduard Shevardnadze , who lost their office and influence after the Rose Revolution in Georgia.

The initiator of the party alliance and its most influential personality was the entrepreneur Bidzina Ivanishvili . The founding chairman, however, was the lawyer Manana Kobachidze. She took over the office on an interim basis because Ivanishvili did not yet have Georgian citizenship in April 2012. Various prominent Georgians also joined the alliance, including former human rights ombudsman Sosar Subari, soccer player Kacha Kaladze , Georgian chess master Zurab Asmaiparashvili , journalist Guram Odisharia, Georgia's former UN ambassador Irakli Alassania and Georgia's former foreign minister Tedo Japarid .

Web links

• Website Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ondrej Ditrych: The Georgian succession. ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. European Union Institute for Security Studies , Letter No. 26, July 2013, p. 4.  
2. ↑ Ivanishvili's Political Party Launched Civil Georgia, April 21, 2012
3. ^ The rebranding of the Georgian opposition , Democracy & Freedom Watch, June 22, 2012
4. ↑ Georgia Holds Its Breath ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Foreign Policy, Sept. 26, 2012  
5. ↑ Ivanishvili's Political Party Launched Civil Georgia, April 21, 2012