Georgian protesters marked their 140Th Opposition day against the Government on Friday, April 18, but its movement is being woven against growing repression. With few exceptions, only a few thousand people, and sometimes only a few hundred, now participate in daily meetings in this ancient Soviet Republic in Caucasus, with a population of 3.7 million, compared to several tens or 20.
According to political analyst Guga Parquekhidze, opposition parties, weak and divided, share guilt. “They do not present a united front and propose a plan for change,” said the independent researcher based in Germany. “This frustrates people who are no longer due to the streets and risk being soft or arrested by notes.”
The opposition parties are in the sights of the authorities. A parliamentary commission created in February by the GEORGIAN DREAM ruling party, which is only in Parliament, is currently carrying out a controversial investment that could lead to the expulsion of the opposition. Initially, the Commission had the task of investigating the United National Movement (UNM), the party of former President Mikheil Saakashvili (currently in prison), lasted his time in power (2004-2012). The Georgian dream had repeatedly promised to punish UNM, accusing it, among other things, or causing the war of August 2008 with Russia. But the mandate of the commission was extended later to cover the entire period after 2012, the year in which the Georgian dream came to power, thus pointing to the entire opposition. The ruling authorities have threatened to use the commission’s conclusions to ask the Constitutional Court to prohibit all opposition parties.
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