UNM’s Bokuchava: EPP pushes emergency resolution on Georgia over ‘authoritarian steps’

Opposition leader Tina Bokuchava on Tuesday said the European People’s Party (EPP) and its allied group within the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly had adopted an emergency resolution criticising what she describes as “authoritarian steps” by the ruling Georgian Dream party.

Bokuchava, who chairs the United National Movement, claimed that the resolution outlined alleged political repression in Georgia and urged international partners to apply “all available instruments” - including targeted financial measures - to limit what she called the government’s “repressive machinery.”

She further said the document referenced assessments from several European institutions expressing concern over Georgia’s “democratic decline” and called on OSCE member states to investigate “recent corruption and money-laundering cases involving the country.”