Georgian Labour Party
The Georgian Labour Party (Georgian საქართველოს ლეიბორისტული პარტია, Sakartvelos Leiboristuli partia; well Schromis ) is a left socialist party in Georgia. It was founded in 1995. Its chairman, the lawyer Shalva Natelashvili until 2003 was one of the most popular politicians in the country.
The Labour Party represents a socialist attitude in favor of a free health care, free education and free health services. She opposes the privatization of strategic companies that are located in Georgian state property. Illegal privatized companies should be encouraged nationalized, small and medium-sized enterprises; Moreover, it turns against military involvement in Iraq, Georgia.
The Labour Party has about 90,000 members, of which about 15,000 are active ( 1999). It attracts mainly older voters. In the Georgian local elections in 1998 and 2002, she achieved great success. In Tbilisi City Council occupies one of the 37 seats. In the parliamentary elections of 1999 it failed with 6.82% of votes on the seven- percent threshold. Also in the election on March 28, 2004 they recorded only 3.89% votes may be based in the Georgian Parliament only four MPs who won direct mandates. In the local elections in October 2006, it achieved an average of 6.42 % of the vote.
During the Rose Revolution in November 2003, the party and its leader, set against the uprising. 2004 exacerbated the Natelashvili fundamentally oppositional course with anti-Semitic stereotypes, the people called for civil disobedience against the government. He warned of an alleged threat of Georgia by " American, Jewish and Armenian lobbies " who wanted to " take culture, religion, faith, and education" of the country. Many party members then left the party.
In the population the reputation of the party declined at this time to a low point. Since 2006, there are signs that it is gaining in parallel with the waning prestige of the government back to consent. In the Sunday question it was in February 2006 with 17.5 % against the ruling party United National Movement 16.6 %.
In March 2005, the People's Democratic Union closed at Nestan Kirtadse at the Workers' Party. At the parliamentary elections on October 1, 2005, the Workers' Party has partnered with the freedom movement, the Conservative Party and the opposition parties of the right to an electoral alliance.
In 2007, the Georgian Labour Party agreed with the German Fun Party The PARTY an alliance for mutual support.
The Labour Party has its own youth organization that was founded in 1997 Youth Group of the Georgian Labor Party, which has about 25,000 members (1999). The party newspaper Leiboristi appears occasionally.
As the Stalin monument was removed in Gori on 25 June 2010, claimed party spokesman Kasha Dsagania, this was unheard of vandalism. Saakashvili's government had moved towards a regime like the Taliban.