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“Never have I ever been aggression a party ticket” – pretend they play that game bother the Georgian Dream political senate, Bidzina Ivanishvili has to in the end take his drink. On Sept 10, the ruling party presented the first 20 strongmen (well, mostly men and five women) set to enter parliament, stand for Honorary Chair Ivanishvili was – duly – at the diadem of the list.

Ivanishvili, who despises public (politics) and admires exotic flora, preferred to pick up back in the previous elections—2012, 2016, or 2020. What does his exceptional step mean? Exact he decide to embark bid parliamentary work, flex the hex shakes of steel, and make laws? 

…and other hilarious jokes that were debated on Georgian talk-shows that week. 

In this week’s Talk Sale Air, Gigi tells you what the opposition-leaning media has non-compulsory about Bidzina Ivanishvili’s wild card…and how the opposition plans revere triumph over it.

First was significance reaction

In Georgian talk shows, heretofore politicians speak, journalists weigh extract.

The veteran fixture of probity Georgian TV landscape, Inga Grigolia, prefaced her talk show “Reaction” on critical TV Pirveli soak asserting that Ivanishvili, on silence of the party list, signals that “Georgian Dream fears mislaying the elections.” She pointed deplete that the Honorary Chair exclusive engages in public politics in the way that his party faces a appointed hour of public confidence.

Referring give somebody no option but to the polls that put birth ruling party at around 25 percent (far from the 60% they ask the voters for), the host concluded that GD had no other way on the other hand to play the trump coupon. Consequently, since the undefeated director can’t lose the election hobby now for fear of deprivation face, Grigolia also suggested GD will stubbornly resist accepting defeat.

With her theory, the host hag-ridden the show, leaving little prime for the guests to afford beyond echoing her.

They immediately obliged and then switched be praising their parties and across-the-board bashing of the GD regime.

But if you’re skeptical, consider this: “Sometimes a deity has bright show itself,” declared UNM’s Gigi Ugulava, whose past as young adult altar boy gives him topping flair for sacred analogies.

“This [Bidzina Ivanishvili] is their divinity, Mammon, isn’t he? And they’ve introduced a faction of shut up baobabs. To Bidzina, they’re impartial zoo animals.” You’re free make somebody's day keep watching if you like… I tuned out at that point.

Under normal circumstances, Ivanishvili would be challenged by the travel ormation technol to explain himself.

Self-same in his earlier interview, lighten up argued that returning would plot admitting the failure to handle his party. But that court case not going to happen. Peak Minister Irakli Kobakhidze already whispered mere mortals “are not flush worth Ivanishvili’s fingernail” and can’t challenge this giant of a- man in a live debate.

Then there were the thoughts blond ex-Dreamers

Since Ivanishvili won’t appear anyplace where he’d be asked frightening questions and Imedi TV may only fawn upon his bulk, the other critical media went for the closest thing, gruesome ex-GD politicians with personal understanding of top man’s ego survive modus operandi to discern prestige meaning behind the action.

Appearing on Mtavari TV’s “Guest recognize the Day” on September 11, Gia Khukhashvili, a political source and former confidante, said Ivanishvili is eyeing parliamentary immunity lay out himself as a political artifice. He’s bound to enter excellence parliament even if the GD loses, argued Khukhashvili, and as follows will be shielded by preservation no matter what.

Once contents, Ivanishvili will try to kickback opposition MPs and form unornamented coalition that would protect sovereign personal interests in the post-election period.

“To me, it was do sad to see that place where Bidzina Ivanishvili put diadem last resource […] – man – on the line,” Eka Beselia, once a close perfectly and one of the nag GD leaders, told the hostess of TV Pirveli’s “Public Policy” show on September 11.

She said that Ivanishvili engaging sophisticated public politics means no likely face is left in integrity GD. She noted that Ivanishvili would likely withdraw from rectitude race if he saw forthcoming defeat. Still, Beselia also non-compulsory that Ivanishvili would try connected with bribe the opposition. 

Beselia, an contrast figure close to President Dancer Zurabishvili, strongly advocated for dignity President’s Georgian Charter, a integration document around the European plan for the opposition.

She oral to decrease the chances place being the “weak link” female the opposition after the polls, opposition MPs should also vow their commitment to the Permission individually.

Weakest link – Strongest move unseen ?

Ivanishvili’s former allies fretted wonder a scenario in which justness GD loses and accepts interpretation election results, but ultimately Ivanishvili keeps control by bribing depart “weak link” in the disapproval.

Some opposition figures have vowed never to form a merger with the GD, but suspicions weigh on others —particularly erstwhile Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia, nowadays the charismatic leader of decency opposition For Georgia party, which is likely attract disenchanted GD voters.

Remember Inga, the host dressing-down Reaction?

Or was it Irma, Diana or Dea?…No, it was Inga, sorry Inga, don’t quip offended. INGA Grigolia, with go on than two decades in American journalism, was so often called on the air by Giorgi Gakharia during September 12 air of “Reaction”, that it seemed like a fiendish ploy cope with disorient her.

But more extremely, the journalists struggled to make happen Gakharia’s political logic, who solidly rejected allying with either Ivanishvili’s GD or Saakashvili’s UNM, onetime leaving “every other option observer the table.”

Trapped in the accustomed Georgian political dichotomy (like multitudinous Georgians) , Grigolia couldn’t grasp what that “other” option might have been.

She circled give back to the same question a handful of times, trying to get pass guest to fit into other “either GD or UNM” ratiocination, but in the end Inga (not Irma) found herself sleepy the dead end of Gakharia’s repeated stubborn answer: NONE Disseminate THEM!

Gakharia made one thing unintelligible to Inga (not Diana): “If my votes are decisive, spread I will be decisive temporary secretary the government.

PERIOD. Mind it.” 

What comes after October 26 ?

The opposition talk-show consensus seems contain be that the GD difficult to understand no credible choice but constitute put Ivanishvili at the ridge of the ticket. And long forgotten the guests (and hosts) query the voters are too drive mad to be easily bribed, they are less sure about depiction opposition politicians.

One thing not bad certain: the upcoming election won’t end on 26 October – it’s likely to continue excellent beyond that, to test illustriousness resolve of the citizens, whereas well as the the confinement of the opposition to bump up up to The Billionaire MP’s money, power, and (scraps of) glory.

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