MP Giorgi Kakhiani: Even Saakashvili disapproves of how his party’s representatives are positioning themselves at the Constitutional Court

“Even Mikheil Saakashvili disapproves of how his party’s representatives are positioning themselves at the Constitutional Court, and on that point I agree with him; their stance is truly absurd,” Deputy Speaker of Parliament Giorgi Kakhiani has said.

Kakhiani was commenting on a social media post by former president Mikheil Saakashvili, who wrote: “What is wrong with the party representatives in Batumi? If you cannot defend yourselves with smarter arguments, stop taking part in this dictatorship’s game and go home.”

“They deny everything. They deny that Strasbourg court rulings exist concerning specific cases. In some instances, they say that certain isolated acts of violence may have occurred, but claim they were not systemic, merely isolated incidents, and ask what that has to do with them. Their positions are so absurd that Mikheil Saakashvili’s own frustration with them has now become public.

It is one thing for us to call their arguments absurd, but quite another when Mikheil Saakashvili himself sees it and disapproves of how his party’s representatives are conducting themselves at the Constitutional Court. In that respect, I agree with Mikheil Saakashvili; their positioning is genuinely absurd. They are in a difficult bind; they cannot adopt any other line, because they have no arguments to counter the evidence laid out in our lawsuit. When you try to argue against facts, you inevitably end up looking absurd before the public,” Kakhiani said.