Govt won’t allow “radical opposition groups” to spark unrests - Parliament Vice-Speaker
Georgian Parliament Vice Speaker Archil Talakvadze said on Friday the Georgian Dream Government “would prevent any unrest” by the “radical part” of the Georgian opposition. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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Archil Talakvadze, the Vice-Speaker in the Georgian Parliament, said on Friday the Georgian Dream Government would “not allow any unrest in the country and prevent any attempts” by “radical opposition groups” to make changes in domestic politics with the help of street rallies, in comments to opposition leader Zurab Japaridze, who called for “large-scale disobedience campaign” against the Government on Thursday in a bid for early elections.
In his remarks, Talakvadze pledged the Government would take steps to facilitate replacement of “radical, anti-state opposition forces” by those “that are willing for Georgia’s European integration”.
Georgian politics will no longer be run from the streets. The current Government will not allow this to happen. We will do our utmost to proceed with democratic reforms and replace radical, anti-democratic parties with other opposition forces which will be elected by our people in the next elections”, Takakvadze said.
In his video address on Thursday, Japaridze, the Chair of the Girchi - More Freedom opposition party, announced rallies starting in September to “force” the Government to accept early parliamentary elections.
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The Vice Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, Archil Talakvadze, on Thursday called on a part of the domestic opposition to participate in the formats initiated by the ruling Georgian Dream party in the state legislature to address the priorities set by the European Commission in June for the country to receive the European Union candidate status by the end of this year.
The Georgian Government and citizens of the country are “doing their utmost” to express solidarity with Ukraine and stand by the Ukrainian people amid the war, the Vice Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Archil Talakvadze said Thursday at a discussion dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Georgian-Ukrainian diplomatic relations in Tbilisi.
Ruling Georgian Dream party chair Irakli Kobakhidze on Wednesday said the list of “candidates for sanctions on the Kremlin” for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, released recently by the Ukrainian Anti-corruption Agency and including GD founder and former Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili” and several of his relatives, was “absurd”.