第比利斯，10月21日 —— 格鲁吉亚一家法院周三开始审理政府提起的一项诉讼，要求彻底取缔该国五个主要反对党。民间社会团体表示，此举预示着这个南高加索国家即将步入一党专政。
TBILISI, Oct 21 - A court in Georgia opened hearings on Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by the government seeking outright bans on the five main opposition parties, in a move that civil society groups say presages the beginning of one-party rule in the South Caucasus country.
位于黑海城市巴统的宪法法院将开庭三天，审查这起由执政的“格鲁吉亚梦想”党一年前首次提起的诉讼。该法院的裁决为最终裁决，在格鲁吉亚不得上诉，必须在2027年6月前作出决定。
The Constitutional Court in the Black Sea city of Batumi will meet for three days to review the suit, first filed by the ruling Georgian Dream party a year ago. The court, whose ruling is final and cannot be appealed in Georgia, must give its decision by June 2027.
这起诉讼标志着政府打压政治反对派努力的顶峰，自“格鲁吉亚梦想”党在反对派声称舞弊的2024年议会选举中获胜以来，此类打压不断升级。
The lawsuit marks the culmination of government efforts to crack down on the political opposition since Georgian Dream clinched victory in a 2024 parliamentary election that the opposition says was rigged.
自2012年执政以来，“格鲁吉亚梦想”党寻求取缔这五个政党，理由是它们对“宪法秩序构成真正威胁”。
Georgian Dream, in power since 2012, is seeking to outlaw the five parties on the grounds that they pose "a real threat to the constitutional order".
阿哈利-变革联盟党外交秘书吉奥尔吉·布蒂卡什维利表示，该党被列入起诉名单，此项裁决关乎“剥夺格鲁吉亚社会很大一部分真正的政治选择权，并从根本上改变该国政治体制的性质”。
The ruling is about "depriving a large part of Georgian society of genuine political choice and fundamentally changing the nature of the country's political system," said Giorgi Butikashvili, the foreign secretary of the Ahali-Coalition for Change, a party named in the lawsuit.
人权组织和欧洲联盟也谴责了“格鲁吉亚梦想”党的这一举动。格鲁吉亚正寻求加入欧盟。“巩固威权主义”作为从苏联解体中诞生的继承国中曾经最民主、最亲西方的国家之一，自俄罗斯2022年全面入侵乌克兰以来，格鲁吉亚日益走向威权主义，并加深了与莫斯科的关系。
Rights groups and the European Union, which Georgia is seeking to join, have also condemned Georgian Dream's move. 'CONSOLIDATION OF AUTHORITARIANISM' Once among the most democratic and pro-Western of the successor states to emerge from the Soviet Union, Georgia has turned increasingly authoritarian and deepened ties with Moscow since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
“格鲁吉亚梦想”党称，其是在保护国家免受反对派人物侵害，指责后者试图夺取权力并煽动一场与俄罗斯的灾难性战争。俄罗斯曾在2008年与格鲁吉亚进行短暂交战并取胜。
Georgian Dream says it is protecting the country from opposition figures who it says are trying to seize power and foment a catastrophic war with Russia, which fought and won a short war with Georgia in 2008.
格鲁吉亚于2023年获得欧盟候选国地位，但布鲁塞尔现在表示，其在民主改革方面倒退严重，以至于被视为“仅有名无实”的候选国。
The country received EU candidate status in 2023 but Brussels now says it has backslid on its democratic reforms so far that it is considered a candidate country "in name only".
第比利斯国立大学政治学教授科尔内利·卡卡奇亚表示，该禁令将对欧盟候选国所应具备的政治多元化最低标准构成挑战。他说：“格鲁吉亚正从民主倒退走向潜在的威权主义巩固。”
Kornely Kakachia, a political science professor at Tbilisi State University, said the ban would challenge the minimum standards of political pluralism expected of an EU candidate country. "Georgia is moving from democratic backsliding towards the potential consolidation of authoritarianism," he said.
政府最初起诉三个反对派团体，现已扩大至五个，均为亲西方团体。其中只有“为了格鲁吉亚”党在议会拥有席位。
The government's lawsuit was initially filed against three opposition groups but has since been widened to five, all of them pro-Western. Only one, For Georgia, has seats in parliament.
该案部分依据一份详尽报告，该报告由议会调查委员会编制，旨在调查前总统米哈伊尔·萨卡什维利领导的前政府涉嫌犯下的罪行和侵犯人权行为。
The case is based partially on an extensive report prepared by a parliamentary investigative commission looking into alleged crimes and human rights violations carried out under the previous government, led by former President Mikheil Saakashvili.