The Democracy Festival, organized by the Eastern European Centre for Multiparty Democracy, will be held in Tbilisi on August 31.

With the support of the Institute of Danish Parties and Democracy, this will be the fourth event, which will be hosted by the capital after Tsalenjikha, Telavi and Kutaisi.

In the management team, they talk about foreign money in Georgian politics and say that the event is already officially planned by an entity with political goals.

„According to the legislation, the anti-corruption bureau already has a correspondingly greater access to the so-called festival held with the funds transferred by NDI and IRI, and the head of the anti-corruption bureau, as we know, has directly exposed it as a political process.

It was already known to us, but I repeat, it is good when it is established on the basis of legislation that this so-called Democracy Festival, which has nothing to do with democracy, is a directly political process financed by these donors.

Therefore, we once again call on NDI and IRI, despite the fact that their degree of trust is zero in Georgia, to refrain from financing such indirect political processes before the elections“, - says Guram Matcharashvili, a member of the parliamentary political group People’s Power.