Friday, December 5, 2025

Opposition's last mass rally ahead of important vote

Bidzina Ivanishvili addressed a crowd of over a hunded thousand people at Freedom Square in Tbilisi Saturday, as two days remain until the parliamentary election. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian Dream coalition which is challenging President Saakashvili’s power in Monday’s parliamentary election, mobilized over a hundred thousand supporters in the center of Tbilisi Saturday.

The coalition also held a rally in the country’s

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Ivanishvili's campaign surges after abuse scandal

Over fifty thousand people turned up to listen to Georgian Dream leader Bidzina Ivanishvili's first campaign speech after the prisoner abuse scandal. (GD photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The leader of the government’s main competitor in the election in just over a week says that he has plans to solve the conflicts of Georgia’s breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Georgian Dream leader Bidzina Ivanishvili says first, rail and road

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Saakashvili's campaign goes into high gear

United National Movement, the party which came to power after the rose revolution in 2003, rallying in Tbilisi Sunday, ahead of the October 1 election. (UNM.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The two largest political blocs in Georgia in the weekend showed off their support in the regions.

United National Movement, the ruling party, Saturday held eleven rallies in ten towns as well as in Tbilisi. The first gathering started at 11:00 in

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Ivanishvili announces his candidacy for prime minister

Bidzina Ivanishvili is Georgian Dream's candidate for prime minister. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Opposition businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, who is challenging Mikheil Saakashvili in Georgia’s October 1 parliamentary election, has announced himself as candidate for prime minister.

The announcement comes one day after Saakashvili’s National

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Opposition group opens branch office in tent

Soon the whole world will know how the government is terrorizing the people, says Bidzina Gujabidze, opposition candidate for Samtskhe Javakheti. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian Dream coalition Thursday opened a tent in the Samtskhe Javakheti region, because the locals refused to let them rent an office.

The coalition has had problems with rent offices before. It blames the government, saying it does not

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