Ruling party secretary: “radical” opposition “sabotaging” EU conditions’ implementation
Mdinaradze said the process would not harm the country but would prove to be a “failed attempt” of the opposition and “reveal their true colours”. Photo: Georgian Dream Press Office
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Mamuka Mdinaradze, the executive secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Monday said a “radical part” of the domestic opposition was “sabotaging” the implementation of European Union conditions for granting the country the membership candidate status.
Mdinaradze said the process would not harm the country but would prove to be a “failed attempt” of the opposition and “reveal their true colours”.
For a certain period of time, the radical opposition tried to carry out some parallel actions, supposedly to ensure Georgia's European perspective [...] [through their] alleged implementation of the 12-point plan”, the party secretary said in reference to the stated plan by a part of opposition parties to work separately from government-created work groups for implementing the EU recommendations.
"But they also suffered a huge failure here, because creating sabotage and then presenting it to the public as if this was an effort for the European perspective is unimaginable”, the GD official said.
Even today, they are exposed not only by us, but already by the public, [in] that in fact, they are preventing and even sabotaging the implementation of European recommendations, which, in the end I think will not harm the country, although this will be their failed attempt, showing their true colours”, Mdinaradze concluded in his comments.
On June 24, the European Council granted the membership candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova, and said it would be ready to grant the same status to Georgia once the outstanding priorities outlined by the European Commission would be addressed by the Georgian government.
The working group of the Georgian parliament engaged in implementing the European Union conditions for granting the country the membership candidate status on Monday prepared an action plan for the reform of the judiciary of the country, the press service of the Georgian parliament said.
Peter Fischer, the German ambassador to Georgia, on Wednesday said the process of the country implementing the European Union conditions for receiving the membership candidate status should be “inclusive, democratic and pluralistic”.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Tuesday said the Georgian government was following “diligently” each recommendation of the European Union for granting the country the membership candidate status, and expressed his hope for a “positive” political decision from the bloc.
Maka Botchorishvili, the chair of the Georgian parliament’s European Union integration committee, on Thursday said European partners “unequivocally” supported the idea of the country’s integration into the European Union and a successful implementation of EU conditions for granting the country the membership candidate status.
Mamuka Mdinaradze, the executive secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Tuesday said public support for the ruling Georgian Dream party and its leaders was “so high” that “even the biased organisation” conducting polling for the International Republican Institute “can’t conceal” it in the results of their latest survey.
Rati Ionatamishvili, an MP of the ruling Georgian Dream party and the deputy chair of the parliament’s legal affairs committee, on Wednesday said the opposition United National Movement was “constantly trying to damage” the image of the country.
Deepening of the cooperation between Georgia and the European Union was discussed on Wednesday in a meeting between Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, and Pawel Herczynski, the European Union Ambassador to Georgia.
The European Parliament on Wednesday approved its annual report on the implementation of the common foreign and security policy that said the “future of the peoples of Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia as well as the Western Balkans lies within the EU”.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Tuesday said he hoped the European Union would make a "fair decision" on granting Georgia the membership candidate status by the end of the year.