This issue looks at Georgia in the run-up to parliamentary elections scheduled for 26 October 2024. First, Koba Turmanidze describes the preferences of the Georgian electorate based on representative public opinion polls. Tatia Tavkhelidze then goes on to analyse the key contentious issue in Georgian pre-election politics, the foreign agent law. The remaining three contributions analyse pre-election debates. Lia Tsuladze describes the discoursive strategy of the ruling political elites vis-à-vis the domestic opposition and the European Union. Ekaterine Basilaia analyses the reporting of two major TV broadcasters and, finally, Tamar Qeburia comments on the anti-colonialism discourse in Georgia.
Author(s): Koba Turmanidze, Tatia Tavkhelidze, Lia Tsuladze, Ekaterine Basilaia, Tamar Qeburia
Editor(s): Jeronim Perović (Special Editor), Lusine Badalyan, Bruno De Cordier, Farid Guliyev, Diana Lezhava, Lili Di Puppo, Heiko Pleines, Abel Polese, Licínia Simão, Koba Turmanidze
Series: Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)
Issue: 137
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich; Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), University of Bremen; Caucasus Research Resource Center (CRRC-Georgia); Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES), University of Zurich; German Association for East European Studies (DGO)
Publication Year: 2024