Georgia’s democracy level unchanged in latest Freedom House report
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Independent watchdog Freedom House has released a report assessing the level of democracy in 29 countries across Central Europe and Eurasia today.
Georgia’s overall democracy score is 4.61 and is classified as "Transitional Government” or "Hybrid Regime.” The 2015 report listed the same democracy score.
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— Freedom House (@FreedomHouseDC) April 4, 2017
In the report, democracy scores and regime ratings are based on a scale of 1 to 7, with 1 representing the highest level of democratic progress and 7 the lowest.
Countries are classified as the following categories:
- Consolidated Democracy
- Semi-Consolidated Democracy
- Transitional Government or Hybrid Regime
- Semi-Consolidated Authoritarian Regime
- Consolidated Authoritarian Regime
In the latest report, 18 of the 29 countries included saw a decline in their democracy scores. This is the second largest decline in the survey’s history, almost as large as the drop following the 2008 global financial crisis.
For the first time since 1995, there are now more Consolidated Authoritarian Regimes than Consolidated Democracies.
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— Freedom House (@FreedomHouseDC) April 4, 2017
Together with the overall ratings, Freedom House usually releases individual profiles for each country. The organisation said Georgia’s full profile is not available yet but will be published soon.
Georgia remains ‘partly free’ in the latest report by independent watchdog Freedom House. On a seven-point scale of the freedom rating, where one point meant the most free and seven points meant the least free, Georgia ranked three points.
Georgia’s overall democracy score was 4.61 and was classified as "Transitional Government” or "Hybrid Regime”. In last year’s report the country’s democracy score was 4.64, which meant Georgia has improved its score by 0.03 in the past 12 months.
Georgia is one of only two countries to register improvements in the level of democracy in Eurasia in 2014, says independent watchdog Freedom House.
Georgia remains ‘partially free’ in the latest report by independent watchdog Freedom House.
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The report says that in 2019 and in early 2020, politicians have undermined judicial independence and the rule of law in all of the subregions covered by Nations in Transit, resulting in score declines in the Czech Republic, Georgia, Latvia, Montenegro, Poland, and Slovakia