Georgian Republicans release political agenda of upcoming two years

Georgia’s Republican Party, which is a member of the ruling Georgian Dream coalition, have reviewed the achievements of the past two years and set new goals for the upcoming two years before the next Parliamentary Elections.

The political party released a statement on October 24 that defined the political agenda of the party for the next two years.

The party believed in the upcoming two years before the next Parliamentary Elections, the Georgian Dream coalition must take on a handful of fundamental tasks, which were "vital for ensuring Georgia’s progress and development".

The Georgian Republicans Party emphasized five key goals they hoped to achieve in this time. The goals are: 

1.                   Strengthening the institutional foundations of multi-party democracy. This required the steadfast defence of political rights and freedoms guaranteed by the constitution and establish an environment of tolerance for a diversity of political and other viewpoints and the acceleration of the country’s democratic development founded on the European Union (EU) Association Agreement (AA).

2.                   Faster-paced development of democratic institutions, which required the improvement of a constitutional system of checks and balances among different branches of the Government.

3.                   The formation of a competitive and fast-growing national economic system. It meant a reduction of the state’s economic activities along with the end of state pressure on business and an end to the practice of state control of business, and bringing about new possibilities for the population through the EU Free Trade Agreement and Visa Liberalisation process.

4.                   The foundation of effective state governance, which required the development of a staffing policy based on professionalism and qualifications and the elimination of political or other forms of discrimination; preventing the domination of central and national government and local self-government bodies by the special forces and party structures.

5.                   Ensuring the security of the country, which required intensification of the NATO integration process; stronger efforts to implement, in a complete and timely manner, the measures envisaged in the NATO cooperation package.

"In order to achieve and consolidate this, the Georgian Republican Party hereby suggests to its coalition partners two possible ways to improve efficacy and to better structure the coalition: either it can make the currently assembled coalition – which was created with the aim of unseating the previous authorities - into a European-style coalition, or alternatively to make it the kind of coalition in which the component parities are guaranteed the freedom to position themselves according to their own ideologies and to make clear their differing positions within the framework of agreements reached within the coalition,” the party's statement said.