“In what we have witnessed these past few days, we have discovered that a far greater problem than stray dogs is a radical opposition that is emotionally damaged,” said the Speaker of Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili.

In Papuashvili’s words, the radical opposition amounts to a group of emotionally damaged individuals.

“Yesterday’s footage showed that we face a far greater challenge from emotionally damaged people than we do from stray dogs. The absolute hysteria and incoherence that the radicals habitually display on every issue have, I think, been laid bare for all to see on an even grander scale this time. What we have in the radical opposition is a group of emotionally damaged individuals who require a different kind of help altogether. We cannot help them, neither politically nor in any way; they need a different sort of assistance entirely. The scenes we witnessed yesterday, the behaviour, the intrusion, the aggression, are wholly removed from anything resembling rational conduct. All the more so given that they are doing all of this against a completely clear sky.

We have seen the Ministry and the Agency publish detailed explanations covering every aspect of the matter: where, how, and in what manner dogs are being collected, what treatment they receive, and how they are subsequently returned. The fact that such exhaustively detailed information had to be made public at all speaks to the calibre of people we are dealing with. Once again, a soap bubble has burst in the hands of the radical opposition. What remains in ours is the spectacle of an emotionally damaged radical opposition that we can no longer help politically; they need a different kind of help,” said Papuashvili.