The US Congress registered a bill "on non-recognition of the Georgian nightmare"
The US Congress registered a bill with the working title "To prohibit the recognition by the United States of Bidzina Ivanishvili or any government of Georgia headed by Bidzina Ivanishvili, and also for other purposes." Thus, the document prohibits recognition of the regime of the ruling party "Georgian Dream" as a legitimate government. According to the draft law, the only legitimate representative of power in Georgia is the fifth president, Salome Zurabishvili.
The authors of the initiative - Republican congressman Joe Wilson and the head of the Helsinki Commission, Democrat Steve Cohen - call it "the law on non-recognition of the Georgian nightmare."
Wilson draws an analogy between the new bill and the initiative to prevent the normalization of relations with the Syrian regime, which entered Congress in the spring of 2023. The document, which was also co-authored by Wilson, suggested a ban on the recognition of Bashar al-Assad as the Syrian president, served as a warning to countries normalizing relations with his regime, and simplified the introduction of sanctions against Damascus.
The new draft law states that the ban on the recognition of the "Georgian Dream" can be abolished "in the event of the restoration of the Georgian constitution, confirmed by the holding of free and fair elections."
To become a law, a registered project must be approved by both houses of Congress and then signed by the president.
This week, the political council of the Georgian party published a statement about the sanctions policy of the West, the "Global War Party" and the "Deep state" conspiracy theory.
The statement states that "Bidzina Ivanishvili is being sanctioned for the fact that he replaced bloody authoritarianism in Georgia with a democratic government, stopped the systematic practice of torture and murder of people, racketeering in business, media capture and falsification of elections, increased the country's economy from 28 to 90 billion and provided Georgia with 12 years of uninterrupted peace."
"Georgian Dream" subjected Joe Wilson to personal criticism, saying that he is lobbying for the interests of the Georgian opposition for money. In particular, we are talking about the financing of the congressman by the former head of the Ministry of Defense of Georgia, David Kezerashvili - this statement has already been refuted by Wilson.
