Georgia - October 2025

The Georgian Parliament adopted legislation that grants the Constitutional Court the authority to prohibit individuals associated with banned political parties from forming or joining political parties, standing as candidates in elections or holding any public office. Legislation passed in May 2025 already allows the Court to ban any political party it sees as aiming to ‘overthrow or change Georgia’s constitutional order by force, undermine the country’s independence, violate its territorial integrity, engage in war or violence propaganda, incite national, regional, religious, or social strife’. It can also ban parties that it sees as identical to a party already subject to such a ban. Officials from the ruling Georgian Dream Party have said the purpose of the legislation is to empower it to ban the country’s three major opposition parties, which it accuses, without evidence, of seeking to overthrow the state, and that it intends to file a lawsuit to begin the process in the immediate future. 

Sources: First Channel, Civil Georgia, OC Media, Parliament of Georgia