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Post by markgoodair on Aug 8, 2012 10:54:16 GMT
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Post by Rose Tinted Lane on Aug 8, 2012 16:40:14 GMT
What is interesting about this story is that it is Ivanishvili who has chosen to stand: "The country's richest man, Billionaire tycoon Bidzina Ivanishvili, whose $6.4bn (£4.1bn) fortune is worth almost half Georgia's economic output, has vowed to oust the ruling party from power. And the fight is getting nasty." I recall reading a Prospect article sometime last year which categorically stated that he had no interest in politics. I wonder what has changed? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/bidzina-ivanishvili-georgia-billionaire-philanthropist/"Ivanishvili had built the castle and the cathedral, but never seemed to appear in public or be mentioned in the newspapers. In 2008, I was shadowing Saakashvili for a magazine profile and I asked him about this mysterious businessman. “Oh Ivanishvili!” cried the president, 'He is like the Count of Monte Cristo. I have only met him once. He hates publicity. 'Saakashvili laughed, then added, frowning, “but he has no political ambitions. None at all.” He said this as if he couldn’t imagine someone not wanting to turn money into power." "Ivanishvili shunned the glamour of Georgia’s new business and political class. His humble background led him to recoil from the entitlement and snobbishness of Tbilisi’s elites, who were a younger, westernised generation. He liked people he felt were genuine, without avarice or pretension. Some of his friends have ordinary jobs: a florist, a clinic director." "He has kept meticulously out of politics. 'I neither support the new Georgian government nor oppose them,' he told Vedomosti in 2005. 'I have no links to politicians.'" Prospect has been quite good at keeping up with events in the region - these articles provide a good primer on local politics and life: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/mikheil-saakashvili-interview-georgia-freedom-tblisi/www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/the-domino-effect/ |
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Post by markgoodair on Sept 29, 2012 13:07:36 GMT
Expect there to be trouble after the results are announced.
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Post by john07 on Sept 29, 2012 16:10:18 GMT
Expect there to be trouble after the results are announced. The question is, will they be announced before or after the election? |
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Post by markgoodair on Oct 1, 2012 17:51:43 GMT
Opposition leading according to BBC.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Oct 1, 2012 23:53:45 GMT
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Post by markgoodair on Oct 2, 2012 23:06:04 GMT
Seems I was wrong . The elections have gone off peacefully with the opposition win being accepted by the President.
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Post by Georg Ebner on Oct 10, 2016 0:27:59 GMT
The less wealthy Georgia reelected its government with 48.6%, UNM fell to 27%, "Patriots" stand at the threshold of 5%, "Labour" (whatever that means) 3%.
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Post by Georg Ebner on Oct 10, 2016 0:50:29 GMT
If the proRussian "Patriots" have to stay outside - Putin might claim VoteFraud then... - G.Dream receives of 77 PR-seats 49 and UNM 28. Out of 73 FPTP-mandats 28 were won by GD (but only 4/22 in Tblissi), none by others (leaving 51 for RunOffs). So GD has collected so far 71, not far away from an OverallMajority.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2016 19:22:22 GMT
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Post by Georg Ebner on Oct 10, 2016 23:44:55 GMT
With 100% in, the PutinParty stands at 5.006% (113 votes above the threshold), but some precincts have to be recounted...
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Post by john07 on Oct 10, 2016 23:52:19 GMT
"Due to the country's complex election rules, the final make-up of the 150-seat parliament may only become clear by late November." Sound a bit like Australia? |
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Post by Georg Ebner on Oct 30, 2016 21:40:42 GMT
RunOffs included, the 150 seats are allocated as follows:
114 G.Dream
27 UNM
6 ProPutinPatriots
1 "Industrialists" (amazing!)
2 Independents
So GD is slightly above the - seemingly important - 3/4-majority.
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Post by AustralianSwingVoter on Oct 30, 2016 21:42:22 GMT
"Due to the country's complex election rules, the final make-up of the 150-seat parliament may only become clear by late November." Sound a bit like Australia? The BBC said exactly that, to the letter about our election, so yes it is VERY uncannily familiar |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2016 21:44:04 GMT
RunOffs included, the 150 seats are allocated as follows: 114 G.Dream 27 UNM 6 ProPutinPatriots 1 "Industrialists" (amazing!)2 Independents So GD is slightly above the - seemingly important - 3/4-majority. Why? |
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Post by Georg Ebner on Oct 30, 2016 21:49:26 GMT
RunOffs included, the 150 seats are allocated as follows: 114 G.Dream 27 UNM 6 ProPutinPatriots 1 "Industrialists" (amazing!)2 Independents So GD is slightly above the - seemingly important - 3/4-majority. Why? Grotesque, probably their great "philosophy" is some ReIndustrialization!? Also: Industria was not so positively meant by the Romans. |
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Post by Georg Ebner on Oct 30, 2016 21:52:48 GMT
GD won 70/73 FPTP-seats.
With GD receiving more than 113/150, Saakaschwili's party might follow his advice to boycott the parliament.?
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Post by Georg Ebner on Oct 29, 2018 2:33:56 GMT
It was considered to be an easy walk for the female Independent supported by the governing "GeorgianDream/GD" - but it wasn't!
81.62% counted:
38.80% Ind. (endorsed by the "midleft" GD)
37.44% UNM (EPP-observer, IDU; Saskashvili's party)
11.03% EuropeanGeorgia-Mov.f.Lib. (exUNM)
03.76% LabourParty of Georgia
02.30% Girchi (rightliberal)
02.25% FreeDemocrats
01.35% FreeGeorgia
The OutCome in the RunOff will very likely depend on the UNM-splinter: Do they still see themselves as a part of the UNM-family or are they these days nearer to the government-parties?
GD's glamour has faded away, obviously.
Our user "mazuz" wrote on another forum interesting InSights: While GD did once well in the WorkingClass-areas of Tiblisi, it was yesterday UNM (vice versa in the wealthier city-districts).
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Post by Foggy on Oct 29, 2018 2:38:04 GMT
Is this a properly democratic exercise? The Caucasus doesn't exactly have much of a great reputation for that. The real run-off to decide the Georgian head of state should of course be contested between Irakli Mukhraneli and Nugzar Gruzinsky... in a duel.  |
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Post by Georg Ebner on Oct 29, 2018 3:25:18 GMT
Is this a properly democratic exercise? The Caucasus doesn't exactly have much of a great reputation for that. The real run-off to decide the Georgian head of state should of course be contested between Irakli Mukhraneli and Nugzar Gruzinsky... in a duel. And both princes are realiter probably Armenians... |
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