Magest
10-06-2006, 01:38 PM
There is no democracy in Georgia, is there? Last elections prove it all right.
Hello! Once again, I would like to draw your attention to a problem of democracy in ex-soviet republic Georgia, or - to be more exact – absence of democracy in this country despite all affirmations by Georgian president Saakashvili and efforts by the US in development of democracy there.
The last example of local elections on October 5 must be the most exhibitive. According to reports by many news agencies, the scope of election engineering in favor of the ruling party is boggling imagination. Representatives of the official power were not only brassily exploiting management reserves, there also was detected multiple bribery of voters, temporary detentions of oppositional observers, counting-out, stuffing and ballot-rigging. Besides that, as they call it, <dead souls> (defunct voters in register list who somehow cast a vote anyway) numbered about 1 per cent of the total number of registered voters.
Only and exactly by these means the ruling party of Saakashvili managed to have some 70 per cent of votes. Is it a democratic style of ruling the country? Georgian opposition is merely out of game as the ruling party has the right end of the stick thanks to financial support of the US and has the gall to trespass against all imaginable democratic principles with implied invitation of Washington. Well, I’d hate to see such type of “democracy” embraced by our Common European Home!
Hello! Once again, I would like to draw your attention to a problem of democracy in ex-soviet republic Georgia, or - to be more exact – absence of democracy in this country despite all affirmations by Georgian president Saakashvili and efforts by the US in development of democracy there.
The last example of local elections on October 5 must be the most exhibitive. According to reports by many news agencies, the scope of election engineering in favor of the ruling party is boggling imagination. Representatives of the official power were not only brassily exploiting management reserves, there also was detected multiple bribery of voters, temporary detentions of oppositional observers, counting-out, stuffing and ballot-rigging. Besides that, as they call it, <dead souls> (defunct voters in register list who somehow cast a vote anyway) numbered about 1 per cent of the total number of registered voters.
Only and exactly by these means the ruling party of Saakashvili managed to have some 70 per cent of votes. Is it a democratic style of ruling the country? Georgian opposition is merely out of game as the ruling party has the right end of the stick thanks to financial support of the US and has the gall to trespass against all imaginable democratic principles with implied invitation of Washington. Well, I’d hate to see such type of “democracy” embraced by our Common European Home!