The Gakharia for Georgia party is summoning Georgia’s Minister of Education, Science and Youth, Givi Mikanadze, to Parliament through the interpellation procedure.

As party member Tata Khvedeliani stated, questions raised by university applicants have to this day remained unanswered, and the Minister is obliged to provide exhaustive answers before the legislative body.

“First of all, I would like to congratulate the final-year pupils on the day of their last school bell. This is a particularly important and pivotal moment in your lives, when young people must make decisions that will greatly influence not only your own future and life path but also the future of the country as a whole.

Today, our school leavers need encouragement and support as they choose where to continue their studies, while facing the challenging months of examination ahead. Against this backdrop of already considerable stress, the Georgian Dream government, rather than offering any relief, is plunging our young people into ever greater uncertainty and chaos.

They have no answers to the most fundamental questions: whether they will be able to study at the university of their choice; how many years their degree programmes will last; what their education will cost the state; whether they will be required to move to a different city, and if so, how they will manage to live and continue their studies there.

These questions remain unanswered to this day. In light of all of the above, the political force Gakharia for Georgia is summoning Education Minister Givi Mikanadze through the interpellation procedure; he is obliged to appear before the legislative body and provide the public with exhaustive answers. We have already submitted our questions, which concern: education funding, staffing policy, infrastructure, the redistribution of programmes, academic freedom, general education, and other significant matters that are directly linked to the future of our citizens,” MP Tata Khvedeliani declared.

Khvedeliani also stated that almost daily, on the orders of Georgian Dream, police are detaining young people who have come to universities to receive their education, arresting them simply for standing on the pavement.

“This is the violent and repressive approach that Georgian Dream has entrenched in the country. And now, through the hands of the UNM’s former prison warden, it is carrying out repression within educational spaces, for who better to organise repression than the seasoned Mikanadze?” Tata Khvedeliani remarked.