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he Georgian Dream party, in power for 12 years in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, won the recent legislative elections, according to the highest authority on electoral matters in that South Caucasus country, and is preparing to govern the next four years .

Once again, as happened in the previous parliamentary elections in 2020, the fragmented opposition, which shares only the desire to join the European Union as soon as possible, refuses to recognize the results, all its deputies resigned from being part of the new composition of the Legislative Assembly. unicameral Georgia and demand a repeat vote under international supervision.

And, also again, Georgian Dream ignores the accusations that it committed fraud and is ready to form a government, despite the boycott of the opposition, whose main demand is not going to prosper, especially after the Central Electoral Commission concluded the partial recount in 12 percent of the polling stations, chosen by lottery, which included 14 percent of the ballots, and ratified the victory of the ruling party with nearly 54 percent of the votes cast, which translates into a majority bench of 89 legislators.

However, Sueño Georgiano did not reach the qualified majority of three-quarters of the deputies, 113 of the total of 150, which is why it will not be able to modify the Constitution.

Founded by the magnate Bidzina Ivanishvili, who amassed his fortune in Russia, it has been believed that Georgian Dream is a pro-Russian formation, especially due to the authoritarian drift of its government and for having copied restrictive Russian laws, but it did resort to electoral alchemy – altering about 14 percent of the votes, according to experts who estimate that his real electorate does not exceed 40 percent – ​​he did it not to abort Georgia’s accession to the European Union, but to defeat the opposition at any price. , even making enemies of Brussels.

Pragmatic as he is, Ivanishvili, who pulls the strings of power in Georgia, is betting on slow negotiations with the European bloc to resume the path of integration, without angering Russia, a country with which Georgia broke diplomatic relations when the Kremlin used its military force to facilitate the independence of the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.