Lelo’s Gegelia: Nika Gvaramia has a problem either with English or with honesty

“Nika Gvaramia has a problem either with English or with his conscience,” Lelo party member Grigol Gegelia has fired back at Opposition Alliance leader Nika Gvaramia on social media.

The exchange follows Gvaramia’s claim that Gegelia “either met with different Americans, or is lying” when he stated that America is disappointed with the boycott policy, insisting that “the Americans said nothing of the sort, nor could they have.”

Gegelia, in his response to Nika Gvaramia, points out that the U.S. Embassy has explicitly stated in Georgian what it believes is the right course of action.

“If you don’t understand English, the U.S. Embassy has stated publicly and plainly in Georgian as well what America believes to be the right course of action.

No one needs Gegelia’s interpretation to understand what the State Department said both at the meeting and in its official statement. When you fail to grasp the message in either language, that points to a rather different kind of problem.

I understand that you are frustrated, because what you wish were true and what is actually true do not align. But that concerns me not in the slightest. What matters to me is that people know the truth.

I appreciate that it is difficult when neither the Hungarian example, nor America’s position, nor the situation within your own coalition is working in your favour. But I have no intention of joining the marathon of bile-spewing that certain members of the Opposition Alliance have turned into a hobby, and which, it seems, they now wish to take beyond their own ranks.

That is not our concern. Our concern is the liberation of this country from Ivanishvili’s regime, and fighting for this cause with every means available. Mind your own ship, gentlemen, mind your own ship,” Gegelia wrote.

For context, the official statement released by the U.S. Embassy in Georgia regarding the meetings between the American delegation and opposition leaders between May 25–28 read: “Democracy requires a political opposition that engages with state institutions on behalf of the citizens who voted for them.”