Updated: 18.07.2025
“Georgian Idea” is a far-right conservative party that opposes Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic integration and instead promotes closer ties with conservative, authoritarian regimes such as Russia and Belarus. The party bases its ideological platform on traditionalism, sovereignty, and Orthodox Christian values, portraying the West as morally corrupt and culturally degenerate.
“Georgian Idea” claims that the West, through aggressive liberal ideology, is attacking national identity, Orthodox values, and the institution of the traditional family. For example, the party equates abortion with murder, framing it as a part of a Western agenda aimed at weakening traditional societies and destroying their Christian foundations. Similarly, the party demonizes the so-called “Children’s Rights Code” and the concept of “juvenile justice,” portraying them as EU-imposed mechanisms and claiming they amount to “state-sanctioned child abduction.” LGBTQ+ rights and gender equality are depicted as foreign ideological intrusions, and the party is known for homophobic rhetoric and the dissemination of hate speech targeting the LGBTQ+ community.
Over the years, the party’s leader, Levan Chachua, has been a prominent disseminator of anti-Western disinformation targeting NATO and the European Union. He has also actively opposed the Pride March organized by Tbilisi Pride. The party’s official website (nonfunctual now) and Facebook page regularly published disinformation and conspiracy theories, including those about the “Children’s Rights Code” and the so-called “Overton Window,” which they claimed was being used to force immoral values onto society.
“Georgian Idea” was founded in December 2014. The announcement of the new political party’s formation was made by its chairman, Levan Chachua, at a press conference held at the RIA Novosti International Press Center in Tbilisi. The party participated in the 2016 parliamentary elections, with Levan Chachua and Aleksandre Bregadze listed as the first and second candidates on its party list submitted to the Central Election Commission.
Levan Chachua was formerly a member of the Union of Orthodox Parents. In 2010, he was arrested for extremist actions after storming the studio of TV Kavkasia live on air alongside other members of the organization. The Tbilisi City Court sentenced him to 4 years and 6 months in prison. In 2012, the newly elected parliament granted him political prisoner status and released him.
Georgian Idea also participated in the 2020 parliamentary elections under the name “Levan Chachua, Guram Palavandishvili – Georgian Idea,” receiving 0.43% of the vote. In April 2024, after the Public Registry annulled the registration of the Conservative Movement (also known as Alt-Info), the movement’s leader, Zurab Makharadze, announced that they had “gifted” the Georgian Idea party, led by Levan Chachua, to continue their political activities. However, the Public Registry also suspended Georgian Idea’s registration, citing a complaint from the Anti-Corruption Bureau regarding inconsistencies between the party’s registered data and Georgian legislation.
