Legal Issues Committee Chair: Report of parliamentary fact-finding commission provides detailed information regarding numerous crimes committed between 2004 and 2012, no one will escape these facts

“The report of the parliamentary interim fact-finding commission provides detailed information regarding numerous crimes committed between 2004 and 2012, and no one will be able to escape these facts, and no one will say that he/she was not allowed to attend the commission meetings and present their viewpoints,” said Archil Gorduladze, Chair of the parliamentary Legal Issues Committee.

According to Gorduladze, the commission received hundreds of statements; however, it was not possible to review them all, as there were so many crimes.

“Even six months proved insufficient to properly assess the unconstitutional, unlawful, and illegal actions of the National Movement and parties closely affiliated with it. The report, spanning several hundred pages and presented as evidence, represents only a small part of the unlawful acts that characterized the reality in our country between 2004 and 2012. No one can claim that the facts cited in the investigative commission’s report are untrue.

Then it can also be successfully argued that there are no dead people, no confiscated property, no decisions of the Strasbourg Court. Our claim contains only references to the findings of the investigative commission. The findings of the investigative commission should not be excluded from the documents attached to the lawsuit for one simple reason – this is a compilation of facts on the one hand, and on the other hand, the motion to remove the report from the documents aims to avoid the recognition of the legitimacy of the Georgian Parliament, Constitutional Court and parliamentary fact-finding commission. Yes, the report of the parliamentary fact-finding commission provides detailed information regarding numerous crimes committed between 2004 and 2012, and no one will escape these facts,” he said.

Representatives of 5 opposition parties demanded that the report of the parliamentary fact-finding commission was removed from the documents attached to the lawsuit on banning political parties; however, the Constitutional Court did not satisfy the demand.

On October 21, the Plenum of the Constitutional Court of Georgia began a substantive hearing on the lawsuit seeking to declare the activities of five political parties unconstitutional and to ban them. Hearings will continue on 22 and 23 October.