The climate activist is supporting a push to overturn the national election by the country’s pro-Western opposition
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg joined thousands of demonstrators who marched on the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi on Monday as they protested against what they say was a rigged election last month.
The parliamentary elections in the former Soviet republic took place on October 26, with the ruling Georgian Dream party, which advocates pragmatic relations with Russia, winning around 54% of the vote.
Various opposition parties each garnered between 11% and 3%. The opposition has refused to recognize the results of the poll, insisting they were falsified. President Salome Zourabichvili has backed these claims, urging the people to protest and saying Georgia had become a “victim of a Russian special operation.”
In an interview with Reuters, however, she insisted that she was not directly accusing Moscow of meddling, saying only that the “methodology used in support of most probably Russian… types is shown in the election.”
“Of course, you cannot prove anything,” she admitted, while pointing to “clear links” between the ruling party and Russia.
What pops into my head is a quote from the movie A Man for All Seasons (I’ve seen it numerous times cause of my Catholic family members and their like for it). There’s a quote from it that goes like:
It feels like every other headline with her is “damn, she’s just a lib”, “no wait, she might be more than that”. Maybe she’s just ignorant and learning as she goes, maybe she is a form of controlled opposition. I dunno, but hopefully she gets more clear as time goes on. Given how these things tend to go though, if she does get clear-headed enough, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the moment when western imperialist media stops talking about her and we only ever hear from her anymore from other sources. Western imperialists love the “debate ideas in public” conception of things until those ideas involve coherent communism and anti-imperialism, and then they suddenly remember what deplatforming is and sweep those ideas under the rug as fast and brutally as they can.