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Leading Georgian political party lobbies US

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Aug. 24, 2016

Just weeks before the country's parliamentary elections, Georgia's majority political party has filed a lobbying registration to "[educate] U.S. government officials" as to the party's policies and positions.

The Georgian Dream party leads the six-party Georgian Dream Coalition, which won a majority in Georgia's parliament in 2012.

The party was formed in 2012 by billionaire (and wealthiest Georgian) Bidzina Ivanishvili, who served as prime minister from 2012 until 2013. On Oct. 8, the country will hold its next parliamentary election, the second contest since Georgian Dream's founding.

Ivanishvili and the Georgian Dream Coalition previously lobbied the federal government in 2012 and 2013, paying $1.6 million over 10 months to Patton Boggs for "advocacy and alerting Congress and the Administration about punitive measures taken by the Georgian government restricting foreign principal's civil and political freedoms and the selective application of punitive measures against [Ivanishvili's] political campaign."