Tbilisi

Without a doubt, Georgia is pursuing its democratization. But this is done in defiance, and even hatred. Democracies emerge otherwise? This Wednesday, the caucasian republic, is organising the second round of a presidential quasi-unique in the former USSR, a region accustomed to the plebiscites, framed and massive fraud. Disappointed by the lack of results from the government, and by its frauds updates during the election campaign, little enthusiastic at the idea of remaking confidence to the opposition led by the former president-in-exile Mikhail Saakashvili, the Georgians have refused to give a blank cheque to a single candidate in the first round, the 28th of October.

Also, this Wednesday, Salome Zourabichvili, 66 years of age candidate of “independent” supported by the party in power, the Georgian Dream, the oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili, has to face it in the second round Grigol Vachadzé, 60, candidate of the united national Movement (MNU) of Saakashvili. Salome Zourabichvili is …