Democratic backsliding in Georgia

Democratic backsliding in Georgia has occurred after initial phases of democratisation, following the 2003 Rose Revolution, while Mikheil Saakashvili was president, and following the 2012 Georgian parliamentary election, when Bidzina Ivanishvili and Georgian Dream (GD) came to power. Democratic backsliding during the GD period includes the systematic weakening of electoral competition and checks on the power following the pattern of competitive authoritarian regimes, in particular starting with the 2023 proposal of a foreign agent law. By late 2025, democratic backsliding characteristics included, as summarised by the European Commissioner for Enlargement, the "rapid erosion of the rule of law and severe restrictions on fundamental rights ... [including] legislation severely limiting civic space, undermining freedom of expression and assembly, and violating the principle of non-discrimination".

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