Tina Bokuchava, a member of the United National Movement (UNM) party, hopes that other opposition parties will join the initiative to establish the interim facts-finding commission in the parliament in connection with the Shovi resort tragedy, assuming they “realize the gravity of questions in the society” about the deadly landslide in the Racha region.

At the same time, Tina Bokuchava said that the UNM applied other parliamentary tools and summoned Minister of Internal Affairs Vakhtang Gomelauri to the supreme legislative body to answer MPs’ questions in the interpellation rule.

“The truth must be revealed. This is what society and survivors, targeted by the government today, need,” she said.

The UNM is interested in the reasons for the lack of early alarm systems, belated rescue efforts, the dispatch of helicopters and also the government’s decision not to ask neighbouring countries for assistance to perform rescue efforts at night.

According to Bokuchava, opposition MPs may be sceptical about the initiative.

“The parliament has not changed, its composition has not changed, tricks of ‘Russian Dream’ to block the implementation of the instruments stay, but I keep hope, and we will continue consultations,” she said.

The ruling Georgian Dream party opposes the establishment of an interim facts-finding commission in the Shovi tragedy issue, saying any MP has multiple ways to obtain any information needed.

The death toll in the landslide-ravaged Shovi resort of the Oni Municipality rose to 26 on August 15. Seven people are still missing, and rescue efforts continue at various locations. A deadly landslide struck the resort on August 3.