The Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia, Shalva Papuashvili, stated that they had warned that the opposition’s goal was to turn Georgia into a vassal state controlled from the outside.

According to Papuashvili, the opposition is now openly saying that “someone from abroad needs to come to Georgia as inspectors.”

“Just like in the Soviet Union, when they would come from Moscow, now they want inspectors to come from Brussels to investigate and control the Georgian people. Ultimately, it seems their political platform is not an independent, sovereign state but a state that is beholden to others and acts on their dictation. We saw how they were defeated, and then a foreign seven-man campaign came to support the opposition, directly calling for a ‘Maidan,’ and, the next day, they started raising the issue of renouncing the party lists, and so on.

We see how these people are being controlled from abroad. How can a citizen of an independent country even vote for such people when a person shows through their actions and words that they want power not to serve the country but to hand it over to others and have our country controlled from abroad? We certainly did not fight for independence for this,” Papuashvili said.