Alliance of Patriots Georgia
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Alliance of Patriots of Georgia
საქართველოს პატრიოტთა ალიანსი |
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| Leader |
Davit Tarkhan-Mouravi Irma Inashvili |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Headquarters | Tbilisi, Georgia |
| Ideology |
Pro-Russian Euroscepticism Populism Christian democracy |
| Colours | Red and gold |
| Seats in Parliament |
6 / 150
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| Website | |
| http://patriots.ge/ | |
The Alliance of Patriots of Georgia (Georgian: საქართველოს პატრიოტთა ალიანსი, Sakartvelos Patriotta Aliansi, APG) is a self-defined populist opposition party in the nation of Georgia. It was founded in 2012 by leaders from the Resistance Movement and its platform includes anti-Western positions.
In the 2014 local elections, it gained an aggregate vote nationwide of 4.6%, exceeding the 4% threshold required to qualify as a political party for government funding. Through party-list voting in 47 cities, it won proportional seat representation on the local councils of 30 municipalities, including Tbilisi.
In June 2016, the party formed a bloc with five other parties (Free Georgia, led by Kakha Kukava; Tavisupleba, led by Konstantine Gamsakhurdia; Traditionalists, led by Akaki Asatiani; New Christian-Democrats, led by Gocha Jojua, and Political Movement of Law Enforcement and Armed Forces Veterans) for the scheduled 2016 parliamentary election, finishing 3rd place in the proportional votе and just passing the electoral threshold of 5%.
The party was established in December 2012, by founders including Soso Manjavidze, Davit Tarkhan-Mouravi and Irma Inashvili. Giorgi Lomia is political secretary. The party leadership also includes former warlord Emzar Kvitsiani, a figure that has attracted significant controversy. The Alliance party was based on the Resistance Movement, a group fiercely critical of the former ruling party, the United National Movement.
It has expressed anti-Turkish sentiment, fearing Turkish expansionism. Its leaders called for a delay in signing the free trade treaty with the EU. It believes that talks about Georgia participation in NATO have gone on too long and people are discouraged in Georgia about not being accepted. Periodic polling by the U.S.-funded International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) have "consistently showed public support for Euro-Atlantic integration at between 60 and 70 percent." Journalist Michael Cecire wrote in 2015 that "Georgia has met or exceeded almost every benchmark for NATO membership, but continues to be stonewalled in Europe over fears of Russia’s reaction."
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