Talk:European Socialists (Georgia)

European Socialists Ideology
I believe it is very clearly that European Socialists ideology is:

1. Left-wing populism 2. Social Conservatism 3. Soft Euroscepticism 4. Non-alignment / Neutralism / soft-Russophilia / anti-Americanism

As they are a very small and a highly insignificant party, no one has really gone out of their way to map out the party's ideology, but I'll try my best to provide reasonings for each one.

1. Left-wing nationalism / Left-wing populism The party split from the far-right Alliance of Patriots. Despite being very conservative, AoP has an established interventionist attitude towards economics. European Socialists have carried it over. The party is also quite populist and has used populist or authoritarian rhetoric on numerous occasions. Some of the ones I remembered and was able to find are: "The foreign agents law does not go far enough" and "everyone should serve in the army, including priests."

https://tabula.ge/ge/news/698140-injia-ara-rusul-kanons-dzalian-liberaluri

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d9Hhn96dWc&pp=ygUi4YOk4YOg4YOY4YOT4YOd4YOcIOGDmOGDnOGDr-GDmOGDkA%3D%3D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PqPhl6v0hc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcGTrWoTMMw (here he is saying that all laws should blatantly state why they are in Georgia's interest, otherwise *proceeds to say something unintelligable*)

2. Social Conservatism Fridon Injia, the party leader, has been present with GD on their family values tour promoting incredibly conservative values and has been a prime supporter of GD's anti-lgbt legislation. He has supported renaming "family values" to "Georgian values" and changing the country's motto from "Strength is in Unity" to "Language, fatherland, Faith".

https://1tv.ge/news/fridon-injia-gtavazobt-ojakhuri-ghirebulebebi-shevcvalot-qartuli-ghirebulebebit/ https://formulanews.ge/News/89814

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6r-XMDlO_A

3. Soft Euroscepticism Soft Euroscepticism is the simplest one. The country is even more fake pro-European than Georgian Dream and are completely on board their rhetoric of "To Europe with Dignity" and "Georgia will play by Georgian rules". In addition, lets not forget the fact they are a splinter party from AoP, which is a Hard-Eurosceptic party.

4. Non-alignment / Neutralism / Russophilia European Socialists supports non-alignment and while is formally in favor of joining the EU is opposed to joining NATO.

I remember there being an official source by the party themselves saying this on their site, but their site currently seems to be currently down, so hopefully its back up again soon enough: eusocialists.ge

As for Russophilia, Injia has long been accused of being a Russian-made businessman by the pro-Western opposition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrkWznyfDFA&pp=ygUi4YOk4YOg4YOY4YOT4YOd4YOcIOGDmOGDnOGDr-GDmOGDkA%3D%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ySQsgB2ik&pp=ygUi4YOk4YOg4YOY4YOT4YOd4YOcIOGDmOGDnOGDr-GDmOGDkA%3D%3D

If we put aside the fact, that he is from the Russophile party AoP, there is evidence on its own to make a case for his russophilia. He regularly states the importance of trade and tourism between our two countries:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jTE9BHveW0

And he even has suggested that we should join the Russian banking system "MYR"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctWWCJNH-qU

As for the Anti-Americanism...

https://tabula.ge/ge/news/719170-injia-2008-clis-omze-es-qvelaperi-amerikis

https://tabula.ge/ge/news/708741-injia-israelze-mimachnia-rom-es-omi-albat

Therefore, I believe it is correct to have their positions be:

Fiscal: Centre-left Social: Right-wing Zlad! (talk) 17:21, 12 June 2024 (UTC)