RT-Engels: 22-08-2024,
The government of the former Soviet republic has accused its rivals over the 2008 war with Russia
Georgia’s ruling party Georgian Dream has vowed to outlaw the main opposition party, the United National Movement (UNM), if it wins a constitutional majority in the upcoming October parliamentary elections.
Georgian Dream holds the UNM responsible for the outbreak of the country’s conflict with Russia in August 2008, and has accused it of attempts to “open a second front” against Moscow in the ongoing Ukraine conflict.
In a statement on the party’s official Facebook page on Tuesday, Georgian Dream said it aims to ensure “long-term sustainable peace and security” in the country and outlined four key reasons why it needed to achieve a constitutional majority in order to do so.
These include “qualitatively improving the political system,” curbing the spread of LGBT propaganda and protecting family values, upholding the country’s territorial integrity, and safekeeping Georgia’s identity.
The party argues it will be impossible to improve the country’s political system without completely banning the UNM, which was founded by former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. Upon obtaining a constitutional majority, the party said it would initiate a legal process to label the opposition movement and all its satellites or successor parties as “unconstitutional.”
The UNM has also been accused of continuing to act on the orders of “strong external patrons,” which Georgian Dream says have been responsible for coordinating campaigns against the country over the past two years.