Former PM Gakharia’s party receives 296,266 GEL in donations, ruling party head questions party’s funding sources
The ruling party claimed that Gakharia’s resignation ‘was profitable for the opposition United National Movement (UNM) party.’ Photo: Giorgi Gakharia/Facebook.
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Former Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia’s recently launched political party For Georgia has received 296,266 GEL (about $95,326/€81,385) in donations within the last several months while the ruling Georgian Dream party’s Head Irakli Kobakhidze accused Gakharia that its party is financed from Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.
The Georgian State Audit Office report shows that For Georgia started receiving donations in April 2021 before the official launch of the party which took place on May 29. Among the party’s donors are MPs and For Georgia members.
Head of the ruling party Irakli Kobakhidze questioned the funding sources of For Georgia late in July, noting that the ruling party has ‘some information [about the funding sources of For Georgia] and at some point, it will not be bad to make it public,’ Kobakhidze said.
Kobakhidze accused former PM Gakharia and the opposition United National Movement (UNM) party of planning an alleged coup in February 2021. The ruling party claimed that Gakharia’s resignation ‘was profitable for the opposition United National Movement (UNM) party.’
In late June Georgian broadcasting channel Rustavi 2 reported about the possible meeting between Former PM Gakharia and former Georgian President Saakashvili in the USA. Giorgi Gakharia dismissed the information about meeting Saakashvili soon after it was reported.
The ruling Georgian Dream party has received the most donations in the last three months of all political parties from May till today.
Former Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia, who resigned earlier today amid a disagreement with the ruling Georgian Dream party over the detention of opposition leader Nika Melia’s detention, said ‘confrontation and rivalry’ in Georgia endanger its future democratic and economic development.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has announced his resignation earlier today, saying that the step is connected with the upcoming arrest of the opposition MP, the head of the United National Movement opposition party Nika Melia. Gakharia has stated that Melia violated the law and has been engaged in sparking tension in the country.
Former Georgian PM Giorgi Gakharia, who currently chairs the For Georgia political party, has dismissed the reports of Rustavi 2 that he has met with Georgia’s ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili in Washington D.C.
The ruling Georgian Dream party has accused former Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia and the opposition United National Movement party of planning an alleged coup back in February. The ruling party chair Irakli Kobakhidze told Rustavi 2 media outlet on Friday that then-PM Gakharia had been requesting to postpone the detention of UNM chair Nika Melia for a couple of days after the court ruling for ‘groundless reasons’.
Former Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia, who now chairs the For Georgia political union, said at the party’s launch presentation earlier today that ‘we unite for Georgia, but not against anybody’. Stating that his team will be actively involved in political processes, Gakharia said Georgia now needs a political party which can ‘look the truth in the eyes’ and speak up about the challenges the country is facing nowadays, instead of living in illusions.