Conservative Movement (Georgia)

[8] On April 11, 2024, the Georgian Public Registry revoked the registration of the Conservative Movement as a valid and legal political party.

[9] On June 10, 2024, Alt Info announced they had reached an agreement with the Alliance of Patriots to run in the October parliamentary elections through their electoral list, thus bypassing the authorities’ de-registration of their own political wing.

[10] On September 16, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions on Konstantine Morgoshia and Zurab Makharadze, for “serious human rights abuses” related to their direct or indirect roles in brutal crackdowns on anti-foreign agent protesters and violent attacks on Georgians exercising their right to peaceful assembly.

[11][12] During its founding congress, the members of the Conservative Movement declared as its main goals was to build an alternative party to both the governing Georgian Dream and opposition United National Movement, two largest and most influential forces in the Georgian politics, establish Christian democracy instead of liberal democracy in Georgia, and pursue closer relations with Russia.

[15] According to the party leader Zurab Makharadze, the main economic problem of Georgia is the lack of the industrial base, which leads to the mass emigration of citizens and demographic decline.

Despite the group being generally largely critical of the West, Zurab Makharadze said that the party would be willing to copy some of the "good economic policies" from Europe, such as labor protection, social protection, low interest government loans, and vocational schools, as opposed to the Europe's "bad cultural policies".

The party considers that the West effectively abandoned and betrayed Georgia in the Russo-Georgian War, not providing any kind of significant support which would have averted Georgian defeat, and that the West should not be trusted because it will always be unwilling to confront Russia because of Georgia and potentially start a World War III.

The party considers that the existence of the Christian Georgians in the largely Muslim region is also beneficial for Russia itself and a cordial basis for building relations.

[18] To this end, the party's leader Zurab Makharadze has proclaimed that the key to solving the problems of Georgia lay in the building good relations with Russia, including the problems of territorial integrity, as the party claims that the only realistic plan for Georgia to restore control over its Russian-backed breakaway regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, is to normalize the relations with the Russian Federation.

[14][non-primary source needed] Alt-Info has been distinguished from similar movements by its readiness to use violence in order to achieve political goals.

Supporters of Conservative Movement demonstrating against Tbilisi Pride in July, 2023.