PM Kobakhidze: Telling the truth and passing essential laws enabled us to stabilise the country

“Through decisive steps, we have succeeded in stabilising the country, first and foremost by telling the public the truth. Today, society is fully capable of distinguishing truth from falsehood, which required substantial effort on our part,” Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze announced in Parliament.

According to Kobakhidze, Georgian Dream also enacted essential legislation which, alongside transparency, served as the second core measure allowing the government to restore calm across the country.

“Despite everything, we managed to overcome these challenges and stabilise the country. Parliament played an extraordinary role in this, particularly through the legislation it enacted over the past years. I would place special emphasis on the Transparency Law and the Law on Grants. These were precisely the laws that allowed us to calm the situation.

We all know what foreign grants, those issued to the so-called NGOs, were being used for in our country. They were used to destabilise the nation, to attack state institutions and the Orthodox Church, to attempt sabotage, and so forth. Ultimately, the Transparency Law allowed us to radically change the situation. I remember the processes each of you had to go through at the time and the sheer amount of insult and injustice you had to endure. Back then, every member of the team, every MP, rose to the occasion. Without such a fight, results cannot be achieved. Thank you for your principled stance and for standing by the truth to the very end.

We succeeded in calming the country through concrete steps, primarily by telling the people the truth. It used to be very difficult for us to convey this truth to the public. I recall 2021, 2022, and the years prior, when an unfair statement by a single MEP was enough to cause serious public anxiety. Today, society distinguishes truth from falsehood very well. This required serious work. We needed to share the truth with Georgian society, including the malpractices we observed within the European bureaucracy and, at the time, the American administration. Had the public not been made aware of this truth, overcoming our shared challenges would have been immensely difficult.

Furthermore, we called those who serve foreign forces rather than their own country by their rightful name. This applies to the so-called opposition parties, the so-called non-governmental organisations and the so-called media outlets. Without this truth, dealing with these challenges would have been difficult. We passed the necessary laws. Alongside telling the truth, this is the second major measure that allowed us to bring peace to the country. We also enforced justice against perpetrators of violence. Many individuals attempted to commit violence against the state or did violence to it. We faced difficult periods when we were unable to enforce justice against these perpetrators, but over the past year, we have radically changed the situation. Anyone who attempts violence against the state and the country’s national interests will be held accountable before the law. Our position on this will remain entirely uncompromising in the future,” the Prime Minister stated.