MP Giga Parulava: What we are witnessing in the Constitutional Court falls short of any legal standard, confirming that GD’s politically driven lawsuit is failing

“In any democratic country, banning a political party requires a high standard of proof, yet what is unfolding in Georgia’s Constitutional Court falls short of any legal benchmark,” MP Giga Parulava stated.

Parulava also lamented that the court has bypassed the examination of evidence altogether.

“On 1 October 2012, the Georgian people rejected the regime then in power. Of course, the previous government operated systematically and committed violence against our citizens. Rulings by the European Court of Human Rights, among other facts, leave no doubt that certain crimes back then were systemic. Nobody disputes that.

However, the proceedings in the Constitutional Court are a different matter. In any civilised and democratic country, banning a political party in a given case demands a high evidentiary threshold. What we are witnessing in the Constitutional Court today fails to meet any standard whatsoever. These proceedings confirm once again that Georgian Dream cannot win with a lawsuit steeped in political narratives. Regrettably, the court skipped the examination of evidence entirely, as doing so would have exposed the absurdity of Georgian Dream’s bid to ban political parties even more starkly, particularly concerning our own party, which was added to this lawsuit artificially and in haste,” Parulava said.