PM Garibashvili condemns Mtavari Arkhi TV head's 'attack’ on church
Irakli Garibashvili has previously noted as well that fighting against the church is a well-thought conspiracy against Georgia and the Georgian people.
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Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has condemned the opposition-minded Mtavari Arkhi TV company head Nika Gvaramia for ‘attacking’ the church in his news programme.
I want to respond to one of the most anti-state and dirty policy maker Gvaramia’s attack against Father Shio and the church. This is a classic example of how the state and its main foundation – the church is being attacked”, PM Garibashvili told journalists earlier today.
He said the Georgian society is facing ‘a simple choice’ between the ruling Georgian Dream party, which is in ‘people’s service’ and ‘a criminal gang’ comprised of ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili, opposition United National Movement (UNM) chair Nika Melia and Mtavari Arkhi head Nika Gvaramia, who are ‘oppressors, torturers and the enemies of the church’.
Press secretary of the patriarchate Adnria Jaghmaidze has also accussed Gvaramia of ‘a direct war’ against the church. He further said Mtavari Arkhi TV, TV Pirveli and Formula TV as well as theologians have conspiracy against the church.
In his programme on October 17, Gvaramia critisised the recent preach of the Senaki and Chkhorotskhu Metropolitan Shio Mujiri, who is Patriarch Ilia II's 'locum tenens', calling him ‘the enemy of the country and of his own freedom’.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili stated that the release of alleged leaked files on clerics from Georgia’s State Security Service (SSS) is a conspiracy against the state and the church. Garibashvili said that the country’s opposition ‘launched a dirty campaign’ against the Patriarchate and church a year ago, noting that ‘their main goal is to discredit the church, the army, the police in order to demoralise them.’
"The main task of opponents of the Georgian government is to discredit all the authorities in the country, including church and patriarch", Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has said today.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has denounced the United National Movement (UNM) opposition party, saying ‘the evil force, which is behind multiple crimes, must end as an organisation and as a party.’ He stated that former president Mikheil Saakashvili will have to serve his six-year term and accused him once again of ‘misleading and cheating the public.’
The ruling Georgian Dream (GD) mayoral candidates in Kareli and Chiatura regions, Zaza Guliashvili and Givi Modebadze, have filed a lawsuit in Tbilisi City Court against the opposition-minded Mtavari-Arkhi TV channel and its head Nika Gvaramia for spreading fake information about them.