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Alliance of Patriots of Georgia
Alliance of Patriots of Georgia (Georgian: საქართველოს პატრიოტთა ალიანსი, romanized: sakartvelos p'at'riot'ta aliansi, APG) is a right-wing to far-right political party in Georgia. It was founded in 2012 by leaders from the Resistance Movement, which opposed the pro-Western government of Mikheil Saakashvili. Davit Tarkhan Mouravi has served as the party's chairman, while Irma Inashvili serves as its secretary general.
Being on the centre-left of Georgian politics on economic policy, its social views are predominantly right-wing. The party has been generally described by the media as pro-Russian, anti-Western and anti-Turkish, categorizations the party rejects in favor of labels "pro-Georgian" and "neutralist". Moreover, the party has been accused of being financed by the Kremlin, an accusation it denies.
The Alliance of Patriots took part for the first time in the polls during the 2014 Georgian local elections. Since then, it saw its support gradually increasing, allowing the party to secure 8 seats in the Georgian parliament as a parliamentary opposition during the 2016 Georgian parliamentary election. In the 2017 local election, the party increased its share of votes to 6.5%. However, its support has steadily declined since then, culminating in the party receiving only 1.5% of the vote in the 2021 local election and losing its parliamentary representation in the 2024 Georgian parliamentary election.
Alliance of Patriots has its origins in the Resistance Movement, a group fiercely critical of the former ruling party, the United National Movement. The party was founded in December 2012, by Soso Manjavidze, Davit Tarkhan-Mouravi, and Irma Inashvili. Giorgi Lomia has served as its political secretary. In 2012, Irma Inashvili played an instrumental role as a journalist in obtaining the video footage which revealed the torture and rape in prisons under the Saakashvili government and resulted in its downfall in the 2012 Georgian parliamentary election. The party leadership also included former warlord Emzar Kvitsiani, a figure that has attracted significant controversy.
In the 2014 local elections, it gained an aggregate nationwide vote of 4.7%, exceeding the 4% threshold required for seats allocated to proportional representation in the local councils of 30 out of 47 municipalities, including Tbilisi. Inashvili, the mayoral candidate in Tbilisi, finished fourth while the party qualified for the run-off elections against Georgian Dream candidates in the cities of Poti and Ozurgeti.
In June 2016, the party formed a bloc with five other parties (Free Georgia, led by Kakha Kukava; Tavisupleba, led by Konstantine Gamsakhurdia; Union of Georgian Traditionalists, led by Akaki Asatiani; New Christian-Democrats, led by Gocha Jojua, and Political Movement of Law Enforcement and Armed Forces Veterans) ahead of the 2016 parliamentary election. It finished in the 3rd place and just passed the electoral threshold of 5% required to enter the parliament. In the 2017 local elections the party's vote share increased to 6.56% and it managed to elect 90 Councilors.
In the parliament, Alliance of Patriots introduced a legislative initiative to declare what they refer to as the "Saakashvili-Bokeria regime" of the former ruling party UNM as criminal. On 21 February 2019, the resolution was voted down as it failed to receive sufficient support from the ruling Georgian Dream party, despite 39 MPs from the party voting in favor of the resolution. The main justification for the resolution cited by the party was the Gldani prison scandal, which gave light to the widespread torture and abuse in Georgian prisons during the UNM's tenure. According to Irma Inashvili, the rape in prisons under the UNM government was not simply a form of punishment, but a form of "breaking the Georgian man" and "degrading his dignity" implemented against the "ideological enemies" in collusion with Western "pseudo-liberals" like US officials Matthew Bryza and David J. Kramer, politician John McCain and businessman George Soros. In March 2018, the Alliance of Patriots MP Emzar Kvitsiani introduced a draft law to criminalize "insult of religious feelings", while in December 2018 he also introduced a draft law to ban wearing the burqas and niqabs in public. However, both draft legislations failed to pass.
In 2019, Gia Jorjoliani, the leader of the Social Democrats for the Development of Georgia, joined the Alliance of Patriots parliamentary faction, after his party left the GD parliamentary majority. The faction was renamed to "Alliance of Patriots – Social Democrats". Jorjoliani cited general agreement on core issues such as their left-wing fiscal policy and patriotic values as the reason for him joining the faction.
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Alliance of Patriots of Georgia
Alliance of Patriots of Georgia (Georgian: საქართველოს პატრიოტთა ალიანსი, romanized: sakartvelos p'at'riot'ta aliansi, APG) is a right-wing to far-right political party in Georgia. It was founded in 2012 by leaders from the Resistance Movement, which opposed the pro-Western government of Mikheil Saakashvili. Davit Tarkhan Mouravi has served as the party's chairman, while Irma Inashvili serves as its secretary general.
Being on the centre-left of Georgian politics on economic policy, its social views are predominantly right-wing. The party has been generally described by the media as pro-Russian, anti-Western and anti-Turkish, categorizations the party rejects in favor of labels "pro-Georgian" and "neutralist". Moreover, the party has been accused of being financed by the Kremlin, an accusation it denies.
The Alliance of Patriots took part for the first time in the polls during the 2014 Georgian local elections. Since then, it saw its support gradually increasing, allowing the party to secure 8 seats in the Georgian parliament as a parliamentary opposition during the 2016 Georgian parliamentary election. In the 2017 local election, the party increased its share of votes to 6.5%. However, its support has steadily declined since then, culminating in the party receiving only 1.5% of the vote in the 2021 local election and losing its parliamentary representation in the 2024 Georgian parliamentary election.
Alliance of Patriots has its origins in the Resistance Movement, a group fiercely critical of the former ruling party, the United National Movement. The party was founded in December 2012, by Soso Manjavidze, Davit Tarkhan-Mouravi, and Irma Inashvili. Giorgi Lomia has served as its political secretary. In 2012, Irma Inashvili played an instrumental role as a journalist in obtaining the video footage which revealed the torture and rape in prisons under the Saakashvili government and resulted in its downfall in the 2012 Georgian parliamentary election. The party leadership also included former warlord Emzar Kvitsiani, a figure that has attracted significant controversy.
In the 2014 local elections, it gained an aggregate nationwide vote of 4.7%, exceeding the 4% threshold required for seats allocated to proportional representation in the local councils of 30 out of 47 municipalities, including Tbilisi. Inashvili, the mayoral candidate in Tbilisi, finished fourth while the party qualified for the run-off elections against Georgian Dream candidates in the cities of Poti and Ozurgeti.
In June 2016, the party formed a bloc with five other parties (Free Georgia, led by Kakha Kukava; Tavisupleba, led by Konstantine Gamsakhurdia; Union of Georgian Traditionalists, led by Akaki Asatiani; New Christian-Democrats, led by Gocha Jojua, and Political Movement of Law Enforcement and Armed Forces Veterans) ahead of the 2016 parliamentary election. It finished in the 3rd place and just passed the electoral threshold of 5% required to enter the parliament. In the 2017 local elections the party's vote share increased to 6.56% and it managed to elect 90 Councilors.
In the parliament, Alliance of Patriots introduced a legislative initiative to declare what they refer to as the "Saakashvili-Bokeria regime" of the former ruling party UNM as criminal. On 21 February 2019, the resolution was voted down as it failed to receive sufficient support from the ruling Georgian Dream party, despite 39 MPs from the party voting in favor of the resolution. The main justification for the resolution cited by the party was the Gldani prison scandal, which gave light to the widespread torture and abuse in Georgian prisons during the UNM's tenure. According to Irma Inashvili, the rape in prisons under the UNM government was not simply a form of punishment, but a form of "breaking the Georgian man" and "degrading his dignity" implemented against the "ideological enemies" in collusion with Western "pseudo-liberals" like US officials Matthew Bryza and David J. Kramer, politician John McCain and businessman George Soros. In March 2018, the Alliance of Patriots MP Emzar Kvitsiani introduced a draft law to criminalize "insult of religious feelings", while in December 2018 he also introduced a draft law to ban wearing the burqas and niqabs in public. However, both draft legislations failed to pass.
In 2019, Gia Jorjoliani, the leader of the Social Democrats for the Development of Georgia, joined the Alliance of Patriots parliamentary faction, after his party left the GD parliamentary majority. The faction was renamed to "Alliance of Patriots – Social Democrats". Jorjoliani cited general agreement on core issues such as their left-wing fiscal policy and patriotic values as the reason for him joining the faction.