Ruling party head says domestic “radical” opposition "gradually weakening"
In an interview with Imedi TV, the ruling party official also said the alleged development gave the Georgian Dream party a “very good basis” for showing a good result in the 2024 Parliamentary elections. Photo: Georgian Dream Press Office
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Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Wednesday claimed the domestic “radical” opposition in the country was “gradually weakening".
In an interview with Imedi TV, the ruling party official also said the alleged development gave the Georgian Dream party a “very good basis” for showing a good result in the 2024 Parliamentary elections.
Kobakhidze said "while the parts are being rearranged, the sum of the parts is decreasing", in reference to recent intra party disagreements in the opposition United National Movement party and resulting changes in the overall opposition.
While they are sorting out relations among themselves, while they have conflicts, while odious persons are elected as chairs and in high positions, the sum of these parts is actually decreasing. Some parts may no longer be relevant in the mathematical formula of the radical opposition”, Kobakhidze claimed.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Saturday said “if Georgia does not receive the European Union membership candidate status, the “radical” domestic opposition will use it to stir up unrest in the country”.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Saturday summarised the extraordinary elections and by-elections held in ten municipalities of Georgia and said the ruling party had improved the results of 2021 municipal elections in all electoral districts.
Archil Talakvadze, the Vice Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, on Tuesday said the “radical” part of the domestic opposition would “not be allowed” to “undermine” the country’s judiciary and European prospects, in comments after the ruling Georgian Dream party refused to register for the opposition-initiated vote on forming a Parliamentary inquiry on the domestic judiciary.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Tuesday said the question of the opposition United National Movement party forming a Parliamentary investigative commission into the domestic judiciary following the United States Government’s sanctioning of Georgian judges could not be discussed “in any case”.
Today Georgia is a sovereign state and no one can “summon” the country’s Prime Minister anywhere, unlike the previous Government and the former President Mikheil Saakashvili, who had been “summoned [several times in 2008] and instructed to do something”, Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, said on Saturday.