Survey puts ruling party approval at 55%
The polls were commissioned by the domestic Imedi TV channel. Photo:Georgian Dream press office
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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.
Shalva Papuashvili, the Georgian Parliament Speaker, on Sunday said the European Commission’s positive recommendation to the European Council last week to grant Tbilisi the European Union’s membership candidate status in December was the bloc’s “message” to Russia that the former saw Georgia as its part and not as an “abandoned periphery”.
The Government Administration building is on Wednesday illuminated in the colours of the European Union flag in a symbolic move after the European Commission recommended the European Council to grant Georgia its membership candidate status next month, the Administration said.
The European Commission on Wednesday issued the recommendation for the European Council to grant Georgia the European Union membership candidate status.
A public opinion poll published on Thursday by the Tbilisi-based Georgian Opinion Research Business International showed 66 percent of respondents agreed with the Georgian Government's decision not to join economic sanctions imposed against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the head of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Thursday slammed the Georgian representation of the United States-based International Republican Institute for its “history of publishing incorrect election polls” over the past 12 years, after the release of the IRI’s new survey that put GD approval in Georgia at 25 percent ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections.
Georgian Public Defender Levan Ioseliani on Thursday said he backed enabling voters to participate in elections with non-electronic identification cards, in response to claims by domestic opposition groups that said the prospect could allow the Government to “rig” votes.
Mamuka Mdinaradze, the head of the ruling Georgian Dream party in the Parliament, on Friday said it was “very regrettable” that only the United National Movement - the largest opposition faction in the Parliament - was expected to overcome the five percent election threshold in next year’s parliamentary elections.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the head of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Friday said all identification cards issued before 2011, prior to the introduction of electronic IDs across the country, would lose their legal validity.
Preparations for next year’s parliamentary elections in Georgia and introduction of an electronic voting system ahead of the vote were discussed in a meeting between a delegation of the Central Election Commission of Georgia and representatives of the United States Agency for International Development and International Republican Institute in Washington on Tuesday.