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Georgia’s parliament has begun discussions of an anti-oligarchy law, in hopes of passing something that will satisfy European Union demands that the country “deoligarchize.” But with the ruling party in the driver’s seat of the process, there are concerns that the law that is passed may end up enabling them to target government opponents. When the European Union in June promised to award Georgia candidate status if the country fulfilled a number of conditions, perhaps the most controversial and unclear was that Tbilisi display a “commitment to ‘deoligarchization.’” While the term “oligarch” is…