The European People’s Party calls on the European Union and its member states, as well as national parliaments and inter-parliamentary institutions, not to recognize the legitimacy of the “Georgian Dream” single-party parliament or the president it appoints, as the October 2024 parliamentary elections were fundamentally flawed.
The resolution adopted by the party’s political assembly in Vilnius today emphasizes continued solidarity with the Georgian people in defending their legitimate democratic rights and their sovereign, democratic, European future.
The European People’s Party condemns the authoritarianism of “Georgian Dream” and its drift toward Russia’s orbit, and demands the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners, suspension of all repressive legislation, and an end to the misuse of politically motivated court proceedings and terror against citizens.
The party also calls for the use of appropriate international mechanisms for an independent, transparent, and impartial investigation into police brutality and the excessive use of force against peaceful demonstrators.
The party urges all EU member states and like-minded international partners to use international instruments, including the Council of Europe’s GRECO and Moneyval, to monitor the recent high-profile cases of corruption and money laundering in Georgia. It emphasizes that “Georgian Dream” bears full responsibility for potential consequences, including the possible suspension of visa-free regimes for certain categories of Georgian citizens under the revised Regulation 2018/1806 Article 8a(1)(h), and calls on the European Commission to ensure these instruments are applied in a targeted manner against responsible officials and their families.
The resolution further calls on the Council of Europe and EU member states to impose personal sanctions on the regime’s ruling, financial, and propaganda elites, as well as those responsible for election fraud, human rights violations, and the persecution of political opponents and activists.
It also urges “Georgian Dream” to publicly abandon any plan to petition the Constitutional Court to declare the “United National Movement” and other democratic parties unconstitutional, and to set a concrete date for new, free, fair, and competitive parliamentary elections in which state institutions, including the Central Election Commission, will operate free from political interference and not under conditions of state capture.
European People’s Party: We call on the Council of Europe and the EU member states to impose personal sanctions on those responsible in Georgia for election fraud, human rights violations, and the persecution of opponents and activists
