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From the start, Citizens were among the parties most willing to negotiate with the ruling [[Georgian Dream]] party to end the boycott.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://civil.ge/archives/386913 |title=The Dispatch – December 11 |publisher=Civil Georgia |date=12 December 2020 }}</ref> The party ditched the united opposition and preferred to talk with the ruling party directly. Elisashvili named electoral reform as the condition for him ending the boycott.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://civil.ge/archives/389779 |title=The Dispatch – December 30 |publisher=Civil Georgia |date=31 December 2020 }}</ref> On 29 January 2021, Citizens struck a deal with Georgian Dream, becoming the first opposition party to enter the parliament.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://civil.ge/archives/394391 |title=Two Citizens’ MPs Strike Deal with GD, Enter Parliament |publisher=Civil Georgia |date=29 January 2021 }}</ref>
From the start, Citizens were among the parties most willing to negotiate with the ruling [[Georgian Dream]] party to end the boycott.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://civil.ge/archives/386913 |title=The Dispatch – December 11 |publisher=Civil Georgia |date=12 December 2020 }}</ref> The party ditched the united opposition and preferred to talk with the ruling party directly. Elisashvili named electoral reform as the condition for him ending the boycott.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://civil.ge/archives/389779 |title=The Dispatch – December 30 |publisher=Civil Georgia |date=31 December 2020 }}</ref> On 29 January 2021, Citizens struck a deal with Georgian Dream, becoming the first opposition party to enter the parliament.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://civil.ge/archives/394391 |title=Two Citizens’ MPs Strike Deal with GD, Enter Parliament |publisher=Civil Georgia |date=29 January 2021 }}</ref>

In the [[2021 Georgian local elections|2021 local elections]] the party's nationwide vote share dropped to 14,652 (0.83%).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://civil.ge/archives/446355/amp |title=2021 Municipal Elections: Outcomes, Winners, Trends |publisher=Civil Georgia |date=6 October 2021 }}</ref>


==Electoral Performance==
==Electoral Performance==

Revision as of 23:32, 23 October 2024

Citizens
მოქალაქეები
LeaderAleko Elisashvili
Founded4 August 2020
HeadquartersTbilisi
IdeologyLiberalism[1]
Populism[2]
Pro-Europeanism[5]
Political positionCentre to centre-left[7]
National affiliationStrong Georgia (since 2024)
Colors  Pale green
Seats in Parliament
2 / 150
Municipal Councilors
1 / 2,068
Seats in Lentekhi Municipal Assembly
1 / 21

Citizens (Georgian: მოქალაქეები, romanized: mokalakeebi) is a political party in Georgia, which was founded on August 4, 2020. The party ran for the first time in the 2020 parliamentary elections. The leader of the party is former Tbilisi mayoral candidate Aleko Elisashvili.

History

On December 7, 2018, Aleko Elisashvili, the runner-up candidate in the 2017 Tbilisi mayoral candidate, founded the NGO "Georgian Civil Movement".[8] On 4 August 2020, ahead of the 2020 parliamentary election, Elisashvili turned the organization into a political party and renamed it Citizens.[9]

In the election, the party won 25,508 (1.33%) votes and managed to enter parliament with two seats, those being allocated to Elisashvili and Levan Ioseliani.[10] Elisashvili additionally ran in the Saburtalo constituency, where he received 14,181 (19.38%) votes in the first round finishing in the second place. The runoff election in the district as well as all over the country was boycotted by Elisashvili and the party along with the entire opposition on the grounds of election fraud.[11]

From the start, Citizens were among the parties most willing to negotiate with the ruling Georgian Dream party to end the boycott.[12] The party ditched the united opposition and preferred to talk with the ruling party directly. Elisashvili named electoral reform as the condition for him ending the boycott.[13] On 29 January 2021, Citizens struck a deal with Georgian Dream, becoming the first opposition party to enter the parliament.[14]

In the 2021 local elections the party's nationwide vote share dropped to 14,652 (0.83%).[15]

Electoral Performance

Parliamentary

Election Leader Votes % Seats /– Position Government
2020[10] Aleko Elisashvili 25 508 1.33
2 / 150
 New 8th Opposition

Local

Election Votes % Seats /–
2021 14 652 0.83
1 / 2,068
 New

References

  1. ^ Joseph Alexander Smith (December 2021). ""STAYING POWER" - Accounting for Ephemerality in the Georgian Party System Since 2012" (PDF). Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
  2. ^ a b "Georgia - 3 Political Parties". European Forum for Democracy and Solidarity.
  3. ^ a b "Parties, Parliaments and Polling Averages: Georgia". Europe Elects.
  4. ^ a b Dr. Maia Urushadze; Dr. Tamar Kiknadze (2–4 July 2021). "The Relevance of the Actual Values of the Political Actors of Georgia with the Ideologies Declared by Them". Diamond Scientific Publishing.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
  5. ^ [3][4]
  6. ^ "Overview of Political Alliances for Georgia's 2024 Parliamentary Elections". Georgia Today. 10 October 2024.
  7. ^ [2][3][4][6]
  8. ^ "ალეკო ელისაშვილმა "საქართველოს სამოქალაქო მოძრაობა" დააფუძნა".
  9. ^ "ალეკო ელისაშვილმა ახალი პოლიტიკური პარტია "მოქალაქეები" წარადგინა". 4 August 2020.
  10. ^ a b "2020 Georgian parliamentary election results". Archived from the original on 2021-01-04. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  11. ^ Ana Dumbadze (21 November 2020). "Opposition Boycotts 2nd Round of Elections, Their Candidates Still Remain on Ballot". Georgia Today.
  12. ^ "The Dispatch – December 11". Civil Georgia. 12 December 2020.
  13. ^ "The Dispatch – December 30". Civil Georgia. 31 December 2020.
  14. ^ "Two Citizens' MPs Strike Deal with GD, Enter Parliament". Civil Georgia. 29 January 2021.
  15. ^ "2021 Municipal Elections: Outcomes, Winners, Trends". Civil Georgia. 6 October 2021.
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