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The 'smoking gun' in the Georgian election? The whole process was a smoking gun

EU & the World

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by Michael Meyer-Resende and Nino Tsereteli, Berlin,

Georgia held elections to parliament on 26 October. Ostensibly these were ordinary parliamentary elections. But on substance they amounted to a referendum on the orientation of the country: becoming more authoritaria...

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Michael Meyer-Resende and Nino Tsereteli work for Democracy Reporting International, a Berlin-based NGO focussed on elections, democratic norms and transparency. Meyer-Resende is also an EUobserver columnist.