Politics

Anna Dolidze founded the civil movement “For the People!” in May 2020.

In the parliamentary elections of 2020, she was an independent candidate for the Didube – Chugureti District of Tbilisi. She received 17.95% (12,381 votes) and took the third place after the candidate of Georgian Dream,  (42.64%) and the general candidate of the United Opposition (21.06%). Albeit loss, the campaign was considered as successful since Dolidze ran as independent against two established political forces.

On May 22, 2021, she founded the party “For the People!“, and those gathered at the congress elected Anna Dolidze as the chairman of the party. In 2021, she was a candidate for mayor of Tbilisi, she won 4.56% (21,935) votes and took the third place among the opposition candidates, while her party won 14,988 votes nationwide and won one seat in Tbilisi City Council. Dolidze spent the least amount of funding for the campaign, running historically the cheapest campaign of spending 2 GEL per vote (75c). In total the campaign spent 36,000GEL (13,500USD), relying mostly on volunteers. https://netgazeti.ge/news/570977/

Anna Dolidze frequently proposes legislation to the Parliament. She is an author of the official petition to curtail gambling. The petition and the proposed measures received 10,000 signatures and were accompanied by a campaign. As a result, public advertisement of gambling was banned. Dolidze was also first to propose legislation to curb the acquisition of real estate by Russians, in parallel with mass immigration of Russian citizens to Georgia in 2022.

According to public opinion surveys conducted in March and September 2022 by the International Republican Institute (IRI), Anna Dolidze ranks first among opposition politicians with 44% approval rating.

In October 2024, Dolidze was elected as a Member of Parliament of Georgia, however due to the authoritarian turn of the government, she wrote an application for the recusal of the Parliamentary mandate.