Ruling party official claims President "strengthened false campaign” of UNM opposition in Parliament address
Mdinaradze accused Zourabichvili of having "reinforced the false campaign of the United National Movement and their goals against this country", and of not being "objective" in her remarks. Photo: Georgian Dream Press Office
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Mamuka Mdinaradze, the Executive Secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Friday claimed President Salome Zourabichvili had "strengthened the false campaign” of the opposition United National Movement party with her address to the Parliament on Friday.
Mdinaradze accused Zourabichvili of having "reinforced the false campaign of the United National Movement and their goals against this country", and of not being "objective" in her remarks.
Zourabichvili told ruling team members in the legislative body the Government must fulfil the country's “European future” as the "will of the Georgian people".
That is what the people gave you the mandate for - that is why you are here”, she said in her comments.
In his response, Mdinaradze noted the goal of the domestic “radical” opposition was to see the country fail in being granted the European Union membership candidate status, "only because they want to change the Government in Georgia by any means and in any form”.
Does not your position directly or indirectly align with these goals? While the European Union itself, at the level of criteria, recognised that Georgia had deserved the candidate status [in 2022], today you said that Georgia did not deserve the status”, Mdinaradze told the President.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday commended his Government's efforts in combating corruption at an official presentation of the country’s Anti-Corruption Bureau, launched as part of the European Union conditions for granting its membership candidate status to the country.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday highlighted the country was ahead of 11 European Union and 13 NATO member states in terms of corruption control and ranked first in the South Caucasus and the Black Sea regions.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Friday said the creation of the Anti-Corruption Bureau was “important” for the country's institutional development, in addition to being a part of the European Union conditions for granting the country the membership candidate status.
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili on Friday announced she would address the European Parliament next month with remarks on the country’s European integration and for “voicing” the aspirations of the country’s citizens.
Archil Talakvadze, the Georgian Parliament’s Vice Speaker, on Monday claimed the “radical” domestic opposition had “used the youth for their political purposes” during last month’s protests in Tbilisi against the proposed bill on transparency of foreign influence.
Mamuka Mdinaradze, the Executive Secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Monday claimed the goal of the domestic “radical” opposition was to see the country fail to receive the European Union membership candidate status and see war break out in Georgia amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.