This is the Popular Front podcast with me Jake Hanrahan.

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Today we're speaking again to our Georgian friend Gatsu.

He's a very switched on political activist and does very interesting video essays on YouTube

explaining various things, including the state of his country, Georgia.

He's going to be talking to us about what's happened with the recent elections which

were quite clearly fixed in favour of the pro-Kremlin party Georgian dream.

Gatsu is going to tell us how that's manifested itself in his country and what's going on with the protest and the next steps for the opposition.

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There's a lot to talk about with Georgia, but I think let's just start with the elections.

October 26th, the second they started happening, I looked online and there's just videos of blatant ballot stuffing, Tatushki types beating people up in the street, vote monitors,

just literally turning their back and just letting people do what they want, people walking in

with various different pens and

like it just, it was a shambles. Take us, take us to October 26th. What happened?

What happened was, it was like an absolute chaos, right? Because not only did everything that you mentioned happened, right?

But also there were like people hired by GD to like stand outside the election offices and give out money to people.

And this was not a good amount of money, bro.

It wasn't even like good, but it was like

30 quid, right? Like $30 or something. And like it wasn't, that's not even a good amount of money in

Georgia, you know? That's like three days worth of groceries or some shit. And yeah, like they were

giving out this money in exchange for like people to vote.

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