Georgia — like other former Soviet republics — has found itself between Russia and the West, with competing forces pulling it in either direction.
Parliamentary elections in Georgia this weekend have been described as the vote "of a lifetime" that could be decisive in whether the former Soviet republic moves toward Russia or the West.
Voter polls in the run-up to the vote are considered unreliable as they have generally been commissioned or conducted by pro-opposition or pro-government groups. There's also the possibility that none of the parties on the ballot paper will be able to form a government on its own and a coalition will be necessary.
People walk past campaign posters of the ruling Georgian Dream party in Tbilisi on Oct. 22, 2024, ahead of the Oct. 26 parliamentary elections.The party's founder and de facto leader, the billionaire oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili,Polls suggest the majority, around 80%, of Georgia's population The specter of Georgia's former Soviet overlord certainly looms large over the vote, with Moscow seen to have exerted a stronger influence over the ruling Georgian Dream party in recent years, and particularly since it launched its invasion of fellow former Soviet republic and pro-Western Ukraine in February 2022.
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