“You remember how following Russia’s intrusion into Ukraine, Georgia from within or outside was told to send volunteers, share sanctions imposed on Russia, close the air and go on escalation thus demolishing peace and welfare built for years,” said Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili at the regional meeting pre-election in Telavi, Kakheti.

According to the Speaker, if the current opposition were in power, it would plunge Georgia into the 2008 August war days.

“We may be reading different books of history but I know no history that would assess sacrificing a nation for a war as the right side. That time, we took into account the advice of good-wishers and stood on the right side of Georgia’s history because we listened to the Georgian people.

If the current opposition were in power, it would share sanctions, embargos and escalation and, in one second, as it happened on one ordinary and bright day in August of 2008, the black-and-white reality of the war would return.

What would we tell our children, why we ruined their future, what would we tell people, whose life changed in one second, who would bear the responsibility,” he said, remarking that if Georgia wanted to be independent, only Georgians and no one else had to decide their life and future.

“Therefore, we should say on October 26: We want a government that listens and believes in the people, or a government that listens and believes in someone else?” Papuashvili concluded.