UNM claims Saakashvili has ‘really returned’
The United National Movement opposition party says that Georgian ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili will not appear in public until polling stations close tomorrow evening.
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The United National Movement (UNM) opposition party held a media briefing earlier today in which they said that the Georgian ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili has ‘really returned’ ahead of tomorrow’s municipal elections.
UNM representative Eka Kherkheulidze said that she doesn't know how Saakashvili managed to return. However, she added that the ‘country’s intelligence service is even unable to prevent the entry of Russian spies.’
I have already contacted Saakashvili via a video call and he responded from the same location from Batumi. Saakashvili's more videos will go viral soon," Kherkheulidze said.
Kherkheulidze stated that tomorrow’s elections should be held in a peaceful manner and noted that the opposition ‘will definitely win the race.’
She also said that ‘it is hard to predict Saakashvili’s actions.’
The office head of the Ukrainian National Reforms Council, which is chaired by Saakashvili, has also told Palitranews media outlet in Georgia that Saakashvili said goodbye to his employees three days ago and informed them about his return to Georgia.
Saakashvili has urged voters to vote for his United National Movement opposition party in the October 2 municipal elections. Photo: VoA.
The Georgian Dream (GD) ruling party says that Saakashvili is not in Georgia and that he released a fake video.
Initially we thought Saakashvili used deep fake technology to record the video. However, we found out that he used a simpler technology,” Kobakhidze said.
He noted that ‘it is too bad that Saakashvili is not in Georgia and that his arrest has been postponed.’
Head of Lelo opposition party Mamuka Khazaradze says that if Saakashvili really returned, it would be a sign that the country ‘has no border police or an intelligence service.’
Head of the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party Irakli Kobakhidze says that Georgian ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili’s recently released video allegedly from the Georgian city of Batumi is a fake and that Saakashvili is a ‘clown.’ “I can say for sure that the video is fake. Saakashvili is not in Georgia,” Kobakhidze said. The Georgian Interior Ministry also claims that Saakashvili has not crossed the Georgian border.
Georgian ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili released a live video allegedly from Georgia’s coastal city of Batumi late yesterday and said that he is already in Georgia ahead of tomorrow’s municipal elections. In the video Saakashvili has urged the public to vote for the United National Movement (UNM) in the elections and if not the UNM, then some other, smaller, ‘real opposition parties’ and not for the Georgian Dream ruling party (GD) or ex-PM Giorgi Gakharia’s For Georgia party.
The ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party says that ‘there are no expectations’ that President Salome Zurabishvili may pardon ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili who pledges to return to Georgia from Ukraine on the evening of the October 2 municipal election day.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili says that the composition of the Georgian government by the majority only over the past nine years has shown that a coalition government ‘is necessary for Georgia,’ Zurabishvili has told Le Journal du Dimanche during her recent trip to France. However, Zurabishvili says that it is hard to forecast how the coalition government may work.
The Georgian Interior Ministry says that Saakashvili has not crossed the Georgian border and that Ukraine has also confirmed that the Georgian ex-president has not left the country. The ministry says that if Saakashvili crosses into Georgia, he will be arrestedSaakashvili, who currently chairs the executive committee of the Ukrainian National Reforms Council as a citizen of Ukraine, released a live video allegedly from the Georgian coastal city of Batumi late last night and said that he is already in Georgia ahead of tomorrow’s municipal elections.
The ruling Georgian Dream (GD) MP Mamuka Mdinaradze says that the country’s former president Mikheil Saakashvili is in the Ukrainian resort town of Truskavets and not in Batumi, Georgia as Saakashvili claims.
Georgian Public Defender Nino Lomjaria has visited the recently detained ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili in the prison of Rustavi and has announced that Saakashvili considers himself a political prisoner and starts a hunger strike. Lomjaria also stated that as a citizen of Ukraine Saakashvili requests a meeting with the Ukrainian consul.