The Way of Georgia

Georgia's Way (Georgian საქართველოს გზა, Sakartwelos Gsa ) is a center-right party in Georgia. Your chairman is the former Georgian Foreign Minister Salome Zurabishvili.

History

The party was officially registered in Tbilisi on 11 March 2006. On March 12, an inaugural meeting was held in the Tiflisser Philharmonic, in which around 2,000 people took part. Initiator of the foundation was the former Foreign Minister Zurabishvili. Founded in November 2005, Salome Zurabishvili movement forms the core of the party.

Principle

The party is in opposition to the government of President Mikheil Saakashvili, whom she accuses of not having fulfilled the promise of the Rose Revolution of 2003. It is opposed to traditional clan structures in politics and society, with which civil rights are undermined again and again.

Georgia's Way calls for a real democracy based on human rights, the rule of law and separation of powers. The Parliament's rights against the government, the independence of the courts and the mass media should be strengthened. Private enterprise should be encouraged, and private property protected stronger. The spread in Georgia hate to be challenged and provided a climate of reconciliation and tolerance. To Abkhazia and South Ossetia, new, peaceful relations be established. Georgia's foreign policy should focus on joining the European Union and NATO, at the same time to cooperative relations with Russia developed the aggressive tone to close the northern neighbor opposite.

Policy

The party wants to distinguish itself from other opposition parties is that they not only criticize the government, but at the same time presenting their own approaches to deal with political problems. They will work closely with experts from the Salome Surabischwilis public movement founded in November 2005. As the only opposition party welcomed on 28 July 2006, the controversial police raid of the Georgian government in Abkhazia and the establishment of the previously resident in Tbilisi Abkhaz government in exile in the Kodori Gorge.

In November 2007, the party joined with the Republican Party of Georgia, the Conservative Party, the Freedom Movement ( Tavisupleba ), our own path, the People's party, the Movement for a United Georgia party Georgian troops and the Party National Forum for opposition alliance united National together, the nominated as a presidential candidate on November 12 Levan Gachechiladze.

Trouble

Although the party chairman is very prestigious to Georgia's Way could not establish itself in the Georgian party system so far. In the municipal elections in Tbilisi on October 5, 2006, only 2.77% of the voters of the party gave their voice. Yet in April 2006, 23.1% of Georgians had declared in a weekly newspaper published by the Kwiris Palitra opinion poll, they would choose Zurabishvili as President.