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Elections and Passive Youth

October 18, 2013

Salome Gogeshvili, Guria

During elections, youth is usually very active. During the last year Parliamentary Elections, youth movement was very active in Lanchkhuti; however they seem a bit passive in the current pre-election period. We asked representatives of the Georgian Dream and United National Movement to comment whether young generation is still active in the process and what is their role in it.

“”During pre-election campaigns, motivation of the young people is usually increased due to their desire to find jobs and raise experience. Our youth tries to maintain last year enthusiasm and actively support our presidential candidate, however their number decreased that is supposedly caused by inconvenient period – majority of them are students; apart to that they got disappointed from the previous elections, because they hoped for more working places and chance of employment,” Maka Kvirkvelia of the Georgian Dream said.

Kvirkvelia said it is necessary to pay more attention to youth and increase their motivation to support the political party.

Leader of the National Movement’s local office Kakha Askurava confirmed that young people are more passive this year. “It is caused by the fact that our political party is in minority and young people are afraid to be close to us because of the government’s hostile attitude towards us,” Askurava told humanrights.ge and added that high number of supporters and their activity was relevant to the situation; many of them wished to cooperate with the ruling party and get job in future.

“After the presidential elections, we intend to establish youth organization, which will be funded from the central office that will increase the motivation and activity of the supporters,” Askurava said.

Humanrights.ge was informed at the Lanchkhuti DEC that about 14 400 voters between the age of 18 and 35 were registered for 2013 Presidential elections that makes 45% of total voters (32 000) in the district.

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