Georgian’s Protest for Over 300 Straight Days as Local Elections Approach

9/26/2025

By: Daniel Miller

It’s been over 300 days since the illegitimate Georgian government announced it would be breaking its key campaign promise in joining the European Union, and the resilient Georgian people haven’t missed a day of protesting since. Here is a brief rundown of what’s been happening recently. Most of the information below is from Droa Party member Marika Mikiashvili’s Twitter account, which provides many sources for further validation:

The Georgian Dream party still struggles with any kind of real international recognition and isn’t taken seriously by the countries that do, such as Iran, China, Russia, and the UAE. Sure, they have struck economic partnerships, but they are inconsistently invited to international conferences with all of them present. The propaganda pumped out by bootlicking outlets like Imedi TV and POSTV continually tells their viewers that the reason Trump hasn’t recognized the government’s legitimacy is because he is being controlled by the Deep State, which sends a contradictory message that the West is evil while yearning for their attention.

International sanctions and the continued resilience of the protesters have caused infighting amongst the regime to the point where some have resigned, and there are rumors of possible defections from exasperated underpaid police officers.

Foreign investment has decreased significantly due to instability and uncertainty. While tourism numbers remain comparable to last year, the tourist demographic has greatly shifted from Western visitors to Eastern ones, resulting in shorter stays. Increased economic pressure on Georgian citizens has caused a decrease in domestic spending. All of these combined factors have contributed to a significant slowdown of the economy.

Local elections are scheduled for October 4, and all but two parties have promised to boycott them. Every other party member’s leader is currently serving lengthy prison sentences. The Georgian Dream party claims that the OSCE is refusing to monitor the integrity of the election process as a way of propagating its victim complex, but the fact is that they purposefully waited far too long to allow the organization any time to make the proper preparations for it.

There are well over sixty political prisoners living in harsh conditions, including opposition leader Giorgi Vashadze and my friend Irakli Kerashvili. A 23-year-old female student was sentenced to five years for putting graffiti on the illegitimate mayor’s campaign banner in Tbilisi.

Earlier in the month, on September 8th, regime thugs known as Titushky attacked a small group of protesters in front of the GD campaign office. The police had vacated the area and then arrived after much of the violence had already occurred. Some protesters were arrested while the Titushky were either ignored or detained and soon released.