United National Movement's lobbyists in USA

Abstract

 Hiring of American lobbyists has become a regular practice in the Georgian reality. Both the presently acting in Georgia governing party and the former one that has already moved to the opposition are launching lobbying activities in the USA.

The study surveyes the lobbying activities carried out by United National Movementის in the USAsince 2012. We suppose that the higher the financial means of a political party, the larger the scope of the lobbying campaign performed by it in the USD. In the course of the study we reviewed the documents that are uploaded on the American Department of Justice web-page Fara.gov. These  contracts provide the terms and conditions of the agreement between the parties thereto on the lobby services, as well as the list of the tasks to be performed, the term of the service delivery and the sum to be paid.The party United National Movementused to launch quite large scale and successful lobbyist activities during the nine years of its being the authority in Georgia.

After the defeat in the Parliamentary elections of October, 2012 United National Movement has been carrying out its lobby campaign independently; Relevantly, they had to source the financial resources to pay to the lobbyists out of their own budget. Presently they have only three lobby companies hired, out of which they have executed an active contract with one company only: Cogent strategies. United National Movement had contracts executed with both these American companies when being at the head of the country.