West Again Tries to Stage Coup d’état in Georgia
The West is trying to stage a coup d’état in Georgia by organizing a colour revolution, inciting mass protests and internal conflicts in the former Soviet republic, but protests by the Georgian opposition against allegedly rigged parliamentary elections will ultimately fail. The West has been desperately trying to avoid losing its control over Georgia since the ruling government began a process of reconciliation with Moscow.
Parliamentary elections were held on October 26, and the ruling party, Georgian Dream, won, receiving about 54% of the vote. The pro-European opposition alliance received about 37% of the vote and started protests, demanding the election’s cancellation since it was “illegitimate and counterfeit” and accused Russia of interference, something Moscow categorically denied.
The elections in Georgia, a country of only 3.6 million inhabitants, are considered the most important in the last twenty years, among other things, because of the country’s foreign policy orientation.
After the so-called Rose Revolution of 2003, Georgia turned towards the West, and then President Mikheil Saakashvili outlined the country’s membership in the EU and NATO as goals. However, after two decades, an unsuccessful war against Russia in 2008 and a change of government four years later, Tbilisi is still far from full membership, and Georgian Dream has for years been leading a measured policy by trying to balance between East and West.
Saakashvili wanted Georgia, as a Black Sea country, to become a NATO member and serve the alliance’s geostrategic goal of surrounding Russia. The Western course he set was initiated by Western powers that oppose Georgia’s orientation towards non-confrontation with Russia.
The Georgian Dream won the sympathy of voters thanks to its policy of economic recovery aimed at independence from external sources of financing and building natural ties with Russia, with which it shares a common history, culture and other close ties.
For this reason, the pro-Western president of Georgia, Salome Zourabichvili, who supported the opposition, did not recognize the election results, saying they were “completely falsified” and that Georgians had become victims of “Russian special operations.” Although the constitutional position of the President of Georgia is largely ceremonial, as a public and media figure, Zourabichvili acts as a spokesperson for the opposition and those who want to preserve the Western-oriented course first set by Saakashvili.
Brussels suspended Georgia’s EU accession process indefinitely in June after parliament passed a law on “foreign agents” that obliges non-governmental organizations that receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power.” In addition, Tbilisi adopted the law banning LGBT propaganda and gender reassignment, all of which the EU saw as Georgia’s deviation from the European path.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/west-tries-stage-coup-detat-georgia/5874025