Georgia - Another Painful Step Forward

Author(s): Tornike Sharashenidze
Editor(s): Jeronim Perovic, Lili Di Puppo, Iris Kempe, Heiko Pleines, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung
Series: Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)
Issue: 49
Pages: 5-8
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publication Year: 2013

The landmark parliamentarian elections of October 1 2012 won praise as a great victory of Georgian democracy. Despite the fact that Georgia scores better in terms of democratic transition and reforms than its post- Soviet neighbors, it had not passed the test of transferring power from one government to its opposition. Contrary to what many skeptics predicted, the country achieved this milestone on October 1. However the subsequent developments make clear that democratic transition in Georgia is far from complete.

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