“Brussels congratulated Hungary’s opposition on winning a single-party majority, yet was once again shown up in its dealings with Georgians, overnight abandoning everything it had insisted upon, namely that a constitutional majority is inherently wrong,” declared Shalva Papuashvili, Speaker of the Georgian Parliament.

He added that the outcome of the Hungarian elections was particularly telling in this regard.

“You will be aware that in Hungary, an opposition leader secured a single-party constitutional majority, and everyone offered their congratulations. We, of course, extend our congratulations as well, but cast your minds back to the hysteria that gripped Brussels and its hired groupings when it came to Georgia. They carried on as though a country cannot exist without a coalition government, that a constitutional majority is undemocratic, and that it is undemocratic for a single party to hold a majority. And yet they warmly congratulated Hungary’s opposition on winning a single-party constitutional majority. From this, we may well turn the page on yet another chapter of outside meddling in our country’s democratic development. They assured us that a single-party constitutional majority was something bad, something anti-democratic. Brussels itself has now confirmed that what matters is how the people choose, and if that is the people’s choice, then everyone must accept it. In taking this step, Brussels has once again been defeated by Georgians, in that it renounced before the cock crowed everything it had so earnestly insisted upon: that a constitutional majority held by a single party is wrong,” declared Shalva Papuashvili.