The ruling Georgian Dream party does not care if Georgia’s largest opposition party, the United National Movement (UNM), returns to parliament or continues to hold street demonstrations, Dream chairman Irakli Kobakhidze told reporters on 29 September. March.
He commented on the UNM’s decision to end the boycott of parliament. Kobakhidze noted that ten of the 12 Brussels demands for Georgia to get EU candidate status have already been legislatively approved by parliament without the participation of “nationals”. Other processes will not depend on them.
“They have no resources, neither for the street nor for parliament. They do not have the resources for parliament, mainly because their intellectual capacities are very limited”.Kobakhidze said.
In his opinion, those who join the discussion of bills are not left in the “national movement.”
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Remember that the UNM became the ruling party in Georgia when Saakashvili became president during the 2003 coup, called the Rose Revolution. As the second presidential term was coming to an end, he made the republic a parliamentary republic to retain power, but the National Movement lost to the Dream in the 2012 parliamentary elections.
Since then, the confrontation between the two political forces has continued. The UNM follows a destructive policy, favoring protests and the streets. In the fall of 2021, Saakashvili, who fled Georgia before the end of his presidential term, returned to his homeland and was jailed on the basis of absentee sentences. He hoped that the UNM would launch a new coup to free him, but it didn’t work.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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