Speaker: The EU is taking revenge on Georgia and its people after turning the 2024 election into a referendum and losing

“The European Union is exacting revenge on Georgia and the Georgian people after framing the 2024 parliamentary election as a referendum and suffering defeat in it,” Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili has claimed.

Papuashvili was responding to a question about remarks by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova alleging Western interference in Georgia’s internal affairs over the passage of its foreign influence transparency law.

The Parliament Speaker stated that outside commentary is irrelevant, adding: “We do not need anyone else’s assessment to form our own.”

“The fact is that the European Union, which presents itself as a peace project and a guardian of democracy, interfered in the elections of another country, and specifically a candidate country. Moreover, it intervened against a single political actor, Georgian Dream, and lost that election. What we have been witnessing for the past two years is a vendetta against the Georgian people over that defeat, an effort to exact revenge.

That explains why the European Commission spokesperson endorsed the events of 4 October, a point further underscored by the EU Ambassador shielding violent offenders. Today, the EU is taking revenge on Georgia and the Georgian people because they declared a referendum in the 2024 election, and Brussels lost that referendum,” Papuashvili said.