PM Gakharia on Merabishvili’s release: UNM is the past, we should think about the future

Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has responded to the release of former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili and said that the “United National Movement [the party Merabishvili belonged to] is the past, we should think about the future.” 

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We should work and do our best for Georgia to be a country of opportunities, not a state of challenges or coups,” Gakharia said. 

He stated that Merabishvili’s words at Matrosoni prison earlier today, that the ‘current state leadership will be overthrown by the end of the year,’ has proved that the ‘United National Movement has no future.’ 

Merabishvili, who spent seven years in prison, was released earlier today.