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.