PM at pro-ruling party rally: GD alone managed to ensure long-term peace, rule of law
The ruling Georgian Dream party is holding a large assembly on central Freedom Square, ahead of municipal election run-offs on Saturday. Photo: RFE/RL.
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Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has addressed crowds at a large assembly organized by the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party today, where he said that the country has a government which is ‘well-aware of the needs and necessities’ of its people and is taking ‘all steps’ to ensure Georgia’s stable and peaceful development.
The rally is being held just days before the country will return to polls in local runoff elections on Saturday, October 30.
Garibashvili noted that in the history of the country, ‘the Georgian Dream alone managed to ensure long-term peace and stability which was crucial to implement fundamental, democratic reforms.’
Grandiose “For Dignity and Freedom” rally is being held on central Feedom Square and adjacent streets and squares in Tbilisi in support of the governing Georgian Dream party, ahead of the run-off election on Saturday, which will seal GD’s victory. pic.twitter.com/1P22uVFjW7
— Georgian Dream (@GeorgianDream41) October 27, 2021
He stated that the Georgian Dream government is focused on the future. However, he said, the Georgian people must not also forget the past, noting “History is the best teacher. We must not repeat the same mistakes.”
He vowed that all the individuals, who have committed crimes and were engaged with torture and supression of the Georgian people, will be held accountable.
Sooner or later justice will prevail. We will never forgive the suppression of the Georgian people, the loss or the sale of Georgian lands, discrediting the Georgian church and Patriarch Ilia II,” Garibashvili said.
He stated that many former officials,’who had committed crimes’ under the United National Movement (UNM) government, have been held accountable, while the ‘main figure of the bloody regime’, Mikheil Saakashvili, was arrested earlier this month.
More than 100K people gathered downtown Tbilisi today for the pre-election campaign rally of Georgian Dream party. Looking forward to 8th straight win in elections since 2012. Unprecedented winning streak in???????? history. https://t.co/8WfQktlabI
— Nikoloz Samkharadze (@Samkharadze79) October 27, 2021
We have sent him to prison for a long time,” Garibashvili said.
GD chairman Irakli Kobakhidze said that the arrest of Saakashvili and winning all remaining 20 constituencies in the run-offs are the preconditions and ‘a unique opportunity to finally end polarisation (and the UNM) and move to the new stage of state development.’
The ruling party will oppose not a healthy political force in the run-offs, but a radical, anti-state and anti-church group which has been hampering state development over the past 18 years,” Kobakhidze said.
Parliament Speaker Kakha Kuchava stated that the Georgian Dream is the ‘only political force’ in the country which is able to ensure the country’s long-term, stable and peaceful development.
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