Ruling party Chair: any demand of snap Parliamentary elections “completely irrelevant”
Kobakhidze also said domestic opposition had held “several attempts to unsettle the situation in the country”, but added all of them had “failed”, which was “leading to a disillusionment within the ranks of their party”, in reference to the UNM. Photo: Georgian Dream Press Office.
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Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Monday said “any demand” of snap Parliamentary elections being held in the country was “completely irrelevant”.
Kobakhidze was responding to a statement by Nika Melia, the Chair of the opposition United National Movement party, who earlier on Monday said there was a “severe political crisis” in the country.
In his response, the ruling party Chair said “the worst political crisis is not in the country, but in the radical opposition, and added “any action” announced by domestic opposition forces was “absolutely doomed to failure”.
Kobakhidze also said domestic opposition had held “several attempts to unsettle the situation in the country”, but added all of them had “failed”, which was “leading to a disillusionment within the ranks of their party”, in reference to the UNM.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Wednesday said the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy, a Georgian-based election watchdog, had “no place” in the Parliamentary working groups discussing reforms for obtaining the European Union membership candidate status for the country.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Tuesday said the statement by the United States Embassy that criticised the exclusion of the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy, a Georgian-based election watchdog, from Parliamentary work on conditions for obtaining European Union membership candidate status for Georgia was “shocking”.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Friday called on the public to disassociate themselves from a “discriminatory campaign” against Russian citizens in Georgia, claiming the “sole purpose” of speculation on number of Russian nationals entering the country and calls for imposing visa requirement for them was “to turn Georgia into a second front” amid the war in Ukraine, and adding xenophobia and chauvinism “has never been and will never be” a part of Georgian culture.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Thursday rejected the calls of the Lelo for Georgia opposition party for imposing visa requirements for Russian and Belarusian citizens to prevent security threats in Georgia on the backdrop of Russia’s war in Ukraine by calling it a “deliberate, xenophobic campaign that is absolutely disgraceful”.