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Mamuka Mdinaradze, executive secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party, said on Tuesday that public support for the ruling Georgian Dream party and its leaders was “so high” that “even the biased organization” conducting a survey for the International Republican Institute, “can’t hide it” in the results of their latest survey.
Mdinaradze was commenting on the results of a new national survey conducted by IRI and published on Monday, which showed that if parliamentary elections were held in the country this week, 25 percent of respondents would vote for the Georgian Dream party and 12 percent for the opposition United National Movement party.
“Imagine how biased the organization that conducts the IRI fieldwork is. However, Georgian Dream has the highest overall rating compared to other opposition parties,” he said.
We know that such studies conducted by the organization that cooperates with IRI in Georgia actually serve to damage the image of [institutions like] on [Georgian Orthodox church] Patriarchy [and] individual figures,” Mdinaradze claimed, adding that the ratings associated with the religious institution were “grossly manipulated.”
The results of the survey indicated that the Patriarchate was evaluated positively by 68 percent of respondents and negatively by 23 percent of interviewees.
Despite support for Georgian Dream, the party’s leaders and its former leader [Bidzina Ivanishvili] is so high that they cannot hide it all – even though they manipulate [the results] more in the personal rating,” the official also said, adding that the organizers of the poll “still recognize” a “much higher rating” for the ruling party compared to the opposition.
The survey was conducted between September 13 and October 2 with 1,500 Georgia citizens over the age of 18 who have the right to vote. Dr. Rasa Alisauskiene of public and market research company Baltic Surveys/The Gallup Organization conducted the survey on behalf of IRI’s Center for Research Insights.
The Institute of Sociological Research and Marketing conducted fieldwork for the survey, with data collected through face-to-face interviews in respondents’ homes.
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