Outgoing US ambassador to Tbilisi, Robin Dunnigan, says the ruling Georgian Dream party leadership sent a private letter to the Trump administration that was “threatening, insulting, unserious, and was received extremely poorly in Washington.”
Speaking to RFE/RL's Georgian Service from prison, former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has warned of dire consequences if the ruling Georgian Dream party wins the October 26 parliamentary elections.
The United States has been the strongest supporter of the Georgian people in a relationship that is now strained, the U.S. Ambassador to Georgia Robin Dunnigan (eds: a woman) said in an interview with RFE/RL, calling the situation “extremely unfortunate and deeply disappointing.”
Civil society in Georgia will be “negatively” impacted if parliament approves a so-called “foreign agents” bill that has sparked huge protests in the capital of Tbilisi and called into question the Caucasus nation’s further path towards membership in the European Union.
With Georgia's elections over, the Georgian Dream coalition now faces the hard work of trying to govern. But can this band of disparate political groups ranging from hardcore nationalists to free-market liberals maintain enough postelection cohesion to name a cabinet?
