The Lelo for Georgia political party, created last year by the co-founders of TBC Bank Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze, may cooperate with Georgia’s fourth President Giorgi Margvelashvili in the upcoming parliamentary elections in the autumn.
Both Lelo and Margvelashvili have confirmed negotiations are underway as ‘our views on many issues match.’
We will inform the public about the results of the negotiations. We are in talks with other political figures as well. I am sure we will together defeat the ruling Georgian Dream party in the first round of elections,” Japaridze said.
Margvelashvili confirms that his views and those of Lelo match and the party unites ‘many of his co-fighters.’
The Lelo for Georgia party was created in December 2019, shortly after Khazaradze and Japaridze were charged with laundering 17 million USD in a transaction dating back more than 10 years.