I am away at the moment, so posts may be less detailed than usual for the next couple of weeks.

However, I thought that I would follow up yesterday’s post about political pluralism in Armenia with reports from Georgia about the formation of a new political party/movement.

Like Armenia, Georgia has a number of political parties, but President Saakashvili’s United National Movement (UNM) is dominant. However, will things change? RFE/RL is reporting that Georgian billionaire, Bidzina Ivanishvili is launching a new political movement in opposition to the UNM.

He promises to contest the 2012 legislative election. Given the constitutional changes to the Georgian system, these elections will now be the ones that choose the country’s principal political leader.

There is no evidence yet of how much support there is for Mr. Ivanishvili, but he seems to have enough money to run a proper campaign.

Civil.ge is reporting the text of Ivanishvili’s statement here. There is also another report here.