Parliament Speaker: There is no real merging or splitting; it is single political ideology acting on foreign instructions

“There is no genuine merging or splitting. There are simply groups managed from abroad, acting strictly on whatever instructions they are given,” declared the Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia, Shalva Papuashvili, when asked by journalists whether the United National Movement party would remain in its current alliance.

According to Papuashvili, these shifting coalitions are merely part of a calculated script designed to mislead the public into believing that different political alternatives exist. In reality, he argued, they all subscribe to a single political ideology.

“Broadly speaking, whether it is an alliance of nine, four, seven, or any other configuration, these are merely superficial forms invented to obscure the truth. And the truth is simple: there is no genuine merging or splitting. These are groups managed from the outside, acting on whatever directives they receive. There is no independent political movement here.

We have seen this farce play out before, including in parliament. In the previous legislature, we saw Khatia Dekanoidze, then the chair of the United National Movement faction, leave both the faction and the party. She and Roman Gotsiridze then formed a supposedly independent group, only for Dekanoidze to eventually return to the United National Movement as an aspirant leader. The same can be said of Vashadze, Japaridze, and Gvaramia. This is a well-rehearsed script of superficial splits.

It is a theatrical scenario designed to confuse the public and create the illusion of alternative political currents. In truth, they represent a single political ideology; they receive their instructions directly from abroad and carry them out to the letter,” Papuashvili stated.