Survey puts ruling party approval at 55%

A public opinion poll published on Tuesday by the Tbilisi-based Georgian Opinion Research Business International has put the approval rating of the ruling Georgian Dream party at 55 percent. 

The opposition alliance of the United National Movement and Strategy Agmashenebeli parties came second in the polls with 20 percent of the vote. 

Commissioned by the domestic Imedi TV channel, the survey put approval for the other opposition parties in the country as follows: 

• Alliance of Girchi - More Freedom and Droa parties - 4%
• Lelo for Georgia - 4%
• European Georgia - 3%
• For Georgia - 3%
• Alliance of Patriots - 2%
• Labour Party - 2%
• Citizens - 1%
• Girchi - 1%
• Others - 5%

Organised between September 30-October 20 across the country, except for its occupied  Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions, the survey interviewed 2,024 citizens eligible to vote.

The survey came ahead of the 2024 parliamentary elections and before the European Commission recommended the European Council last week to grant Georgia the European Union membership candidate status in December.