Lelo’s Datunashvili: Banning political parties is attempted coup d’etat, directly striking constitutional provision that Georgia is multi-party democracy

“When you insist that white is black whilst everyone can see that it’s white, that’s a matter for psychiatry,” Tazo Datunashvili, a member of Lelo–Strong Georgia, stated.

According to him, Georgian Dream cannot comprehend Lelo’s party identity.

“They cry out that we are the United National Movement, which is a matter that psychiatrists ought to study at an academic level. I sympathise with those people who perceive our party as a ‘collective United National Movement’ and who suffer from this problem.

What we are witnessing in the country is an attempted coup d’état. This law directly contravenes the provisions of the Constitution, which affirms that Georgia is a multi-party democracy where a democratic system operates, and independent parties compete for power in a multi-party environment. With the law that has been adopted and the lawsuit that the Georgian Dream is filing with the Constitutional Court, this system and the constitutional principles are under threat,” warned Tazo Datunashvili.

According to him, the outcome of filing the lawsuit in court will be the formalisation of dictatorship in Georgia.

“I have no intention of assessing what filth one branch of Ivanishvili’s hired hands will write and then submit to another branch of hired hands in the court system, whose degree of independence is in the negative. I know what the outcome of this will be: it will be the formalisation of dictatorship in Georgia. When the ruling party makes decisions unilaterally and bans all its principal competitors who demonstrated some form of electoral success in the last elections, this is the establishment of a dictatorship. In 1921, the Soviet dictatorship was established in this country, and it too was wrapped in the guise of multi-party politics,” Tazo Datunashvili declared.