The climate activist is supporting a push to overturn the national election by the country’s pro-Western opposition
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg joined thousands of demonstrators who marched on the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi on Monday as they protested against what they say was a rigged election last month.
The parliamentary elections in the former Soviet republic took place on October 26, with the ruling Georgian Dream party, which advocates pragmatic relations with Russia, winning around 54% of the vote.
Various opposition parties each garnered between 11% and 3%. The opposition has refused to recognize the results of the poll, insisting they were falsified. President Salome Zourabichvili has backed these claims, urging the people to protest and saying Georgia had become a “victim of a Russian special operation.”
In an interview with Reuters, however, she insisted that she was not directly accusing Moscow of meddling, saying only that the “methodology used in support of most probably Russian… types is shown in the election.”
“Of course, you cannot prove anything,” she admitted, while pointing to “clear links” between the ruling party and Russia.
Imagine Mexico would have a party win an election with clear links to the US. They are fucking neighbors.
The issue is of course that Russia HAS been meddling in elections all around the world, investing into bots and agitprop. But the question is then, why would you wade into these muddy waters? Do you know Georgia well enough? Can you even read the relevant history in the Georgian language? And what is the goal?
Help turn Georgia western - and anti-russia, have them try to join NATO and HOPE that Russia doesn’t launch another preemptive war?
Does she want more prosperity and western consumerism for Georgia? Is that good for the climate lol?