‘Five minutes away from one-party dictatorship’: Georgia’s U-turn from Western path Reutersletter provides all the news you need to start your day. Sign up here. But now it is further from the West than at almost any time in its post-Soviet history, according to an assessment from Brussels, which described its democratic institutions as hobbled and its courts under the thumb of the state. This month, the EU declared in a report that Georgia was now a candidate for membership “in name only”. The EU ambassador in Tbilisi said Georgia was no longer on the trajectory to join the bloc at all. Senior veterans of Georgian politics and diplomacy who spoke to Reuters about the events of the past few months said it appears as though Georgia is close to a line, beyond which it will be hard for democracy to recover. “We are now five minutes away from one-party dictatorship,” said Sergi Kapanadze, a former deputy foreign minister and deputy parliamentary speaker until 2020. ‘DEMOCRATISATION MEANS AT SOME POINT YOU WILL LOSE POWER’ Natalie Sabanadze, Tbilisi’s ambassador to the.(Excerpt) Read more at reuters. com . TOPICS: Politics/Elections KEYWORDS: 1 posted on by E. Pluribus Unum Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by.
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‘Five minutes away from one-party dictatorship’: Georgia’s U-turn from Western path
