“The project aimed at overthrowing the government has failed,” Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili declared on GPB First Channel programme “Actual Topic with Maka Tsintsadze”.
“What matters most is that everyone must now face the consequences. If they had the courage to go against the state and their own country, they must now have the courage to accept the punishment that befalls those who act against their nation. So they must be prepared for this punishment as well,” Papuashvili stated.
According to him, society listened to organisers who stood before several thousand people and directly called for the seizure of the Georgian President’s residence and the handover of keys, yet today we witnessed crocodile tears from these grown adults.
“They were saying, ‘How were we to know this would happen?’ and other such things. Such is the fate of an agent: they’re given a task, emboldened, made to believe everything will proceed without problems, then it all falls apart. The agent ends up in prison, just as Mikheil Saakashvili is behind bars, and not a soul can get him out from the outside. He sees it himself, they abandon you in prison like that, left to serve your own sentence,” Papuashvili declared.
When the programme presenter asked where the opposition politicians had disappeared to after the events of October 4, given that initially statements were being made that virtually every politician, including those from Lelo, would join the peaceful overthrow, but then as events unfolded, it turned out only five people remained on stage whilst the rest were nowhere to be seen, Shalva Papuashvili stated that it is like “rats fleeing the sinking ship.”
“Where do rats typically flee when a ship sinks? They all scarpered like rats. They fled like rats back then as well, when there was war in Georgia in 2008; representatives of the government at the time were running towards the border, and they flee like rats every single time. We’ve seen how politicians strut about at other times, yet today they must justify themselves: where were they, why weren’t they on Rustaveli Avenue, when one was being detained, where was the other, and so forth. I know all the rats were scattered about; some were taken from their homes afterwards, while others were taken from the hospital in disgrace. This is the nature of a traitor, and it will always be thus. We mustn’t forget their supposed playacting, as if they were organising some peaceful overthrow,” Papuashvili stated.
As Papuashvili noted, what should have happened was what had been announced and what one of their propagandists let slip today.
“There should have been bloodshed, gunfire, and casualties. That’s what should have happened, followed by chaos and a return to the 1990s; then we would have had concerns from Brussels and various quarters, expressions of sorrow, humanitarian aid, and we’d be witnessing crocodile tears. Let me remind you that very night, whilst the assault on the President’s residence was underway, Moldova’s President made a statement supporting the Georgian people, by which she meant the extremists; she supported the extremists. The following day, Moldova’s Foreign Ministry issued a rather softer statement. They realised they’d rather overstepped the mark in supporting violence and subsequently tried to backtrack, but words don’t disappear and manuscripts don’t burn. So her statement remains on record as a statement supporting violent actors, which the President of Moldova made,” Papuashvili declared.
According to him, amongst them we saw familiar faces.
“We haven’t heard from Žygimantas Pavilionis for quite some time, and there he popped up, along with Radosław Sikorski and all the rest, everyone who has ever been noted as an enemy of the Georgian people suddenly appeared with identical statements. Of course, one perceives that these were pre-prepared texts and pre-prepared speakers, that there should have been carnage here, blood, casualties, and gunfire, and then support from there, supporting the protest, the people, peace, dialogue, and so on.
Look at who was making statements on October 4; these people are enemies of the Georgian people. Let us remember the Žygimantas Pavilionis types and such people. Imagine: an assault was underway on the President’s residence, and Madame Sandu was writing on her Twitter as if everything was fine and dandy in Moldova. Should the president of a post-Soviet, former Soviet republic be teaching us sense? What on earth are we to learn from her?” Papuashvili declared.
