The Parliamentary working group created to review judicial reforms for fulfilling conditions outlined by the European Union for granting Georgia the membership candidate status will hold its first meeting on Monday, the Parliament’s press office said.
Chaired by Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili, it will also involve a part of the domestic opposition, with members of Girchi, Citizens, European Socialists and For Georgia parties set to be involved. MP Khatuna Samnidze, the Chair of the Republican Party, also plans to participate.
The other part of the Parliamentary opposition has rejected participation on the grounds of having no confidence in the ruling Georgian Dream party, and demanded “concrete compromise steps” to be included in the process.
Beka Davituliani, a member of the Parliamentary majority, told the Georgian Public Broadcaster the ruling team was ready to “implement all conditions” of the EU that depended on it and was poised to continue the judicial reform.
"We are motivated to implement the conditions and we will take 11.5 steps [for the goal] - we will wait for half a step from other political groups. This half a step involves depolarisation [of the domestic political environment] - although they have been trying to radicalise and deepen polarisation from the very first day”, he claimed.
Davituliani added the goal of the opposition was to use the topic of EU conditions for “internal political purposes and to bypass the elections to take over the Government”, adding “they will not have this chance".