Georgia’s 2024 parliamentary elections offered a front-row seat to the erosion of democratic values. As a long-term election observer for the International Republican Institute (IRI), I witnessed the chilling realities of state capture, a process driven by the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party under the shadow of billionaire oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili. The events unfolding in […]
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