Union of Citizens of Georgia

The Georgian Civil Union (Georgian Sakartvelos Mokalaketa Kavshiri - SMK ) was a center- leftist political party in Georgia. It was founded in 1993 and dissolved in 2003. My main concern was to support the presidency of Eduard Shevardnadze.

She closed the parties Tbilisi citizens, unity and welfare (Georgian Ertoba because ketildgeoba ) and the Greens (Georgian Mtsvaneebi ) together and had over 32,000 members, including 9,600 women. Party chairman was Eduard Shevardnadze. In the parliamentary elections in November 1995, 23.71 percent of voters cast their ballots SMK, in the elections in October 1999, it was 41.8 percent. In the elections to the city council of Tbilisi she slipped on 2 June 2002 to three percent failed so at the five-percent hurdle. In October 2003, the party won 21.3 percent of votes in the block For a New Georgia. The result, however, was later annulled by the Supreme Court for election fraud.

The motto of the party A worthy president, a parliament worthy of a strong Georgia presented the president at the center. The stated goal of the Civic Union was to establish a democratic, independent and economically strong Georgia. In addition to the protection of civil rights and the restoration of the territorial integrity of Georgia it was the party also important to encourage citizens to more participation and a new entrepreneurial spirit.

The party played an important role in the establishment of stability and order in Georgia. She helped to stop the warlord rule, initiated institutional reforms in the economy and society. They integrated Georgia in international structures, pushed key projects such as TRACECA, the Baku -Tbilisi -Ceyhan pipeline and the control of the Georgian borders by its own border troops on.

Citizens Union had an observer status in the Socialist International, had close contacts with the British Labour Party, the German and the Danish Social Democrats and the Azerbaijani government New Azerbaijan Party.

Your youth organization was founded in 1994, the young Georgian civil union with 12,000 members (1999). The party took place since 1996, the weekly newspaper Mokalake (German citizens) out.