For Georgia’s Giga Parulava: GD’s actions are steering the country away from its Western course; the government must return to democratic development to reset EU ties

“Georgian Dream claims it is waiting for the European Union and its bureaucracy to change, when in reality it is the ruling party itself that needs to change,” stated Giga Parulava, an MP from the Gakharia for Georgia party.

Asked whether Brussels was blocking Georgia, Parulava countered that Georgian Dream itself was steering the country away from its Western course.

“What Georgian Dream says is one thing; what is visible to an objective eye is quite another. The reality is that, unfortunately, Georgian Dream is distancing the country from its Western political trajectory through its own actions. How can relations be reset with strategic partners, whether the European Union or the United States? Georgian Dream keeps peddling the line that it is waiting for the EU and its bureaucracy to change. In reality, the one that needs to change today is Georgian Dream itself.

Georgian Dream must abandon its anti-democratic political course and halt the anti-democratic measures it has been pursuing in this country for years. The government must return to democratic development and strengthen state institutions; then, naturally, it will have the opportunity to reset relations with the European Union. Otherwise, with the undemocratic steps it is taking against our own citizens, European integration is simply impossible. It will not happen, because this conduct is incompatible with the values of Western democracies,” Parulava said.