Vice Speaker Volski: Aggressive onslaught against government showed that political speculation is second nature to our opponents

“When every rating indicates that Georgia outperforms several EU member states by the very parameters that go by the name of European standards, an aggressive onslaught against the government in the face of that reality was no surprise, yet it plainly demonstrated that political speculation is no stranger to our opponents,” said First Vice-Speaker of Parliament Gia Volski.

“It is remarkable that a Georgian citizen, let alone a member of parliament, could genuinely fail to grasp what is actually at stake. What does the Brussels bureaucracy want from Georgia? What demands does it make? And are those demands even capable of being met, as though the continuation of the process depended on whether the flow of money into Georgia is transparent, or whether LGBT propaganda is permitted, at a time when they know perfectly well that these issues have no bearing whatsoever on human rights? Or indeed whether Georgia’s foreign policy must change, in relation to China, for instance, when the EU itself is quite intensively engaged in developing those very bilateral relations.

The double standards, and, in many instances, the deliberately flippant and hostile attitude are reflected in the relationship between the Brussels administration and bureaucracy on the one hand and the Georgian government on the other. To fail to notice this double standard and this injustice takes a certain effort. Our opponents managed that effort, and proceeded to put precisely such questions to Maka Botchorishvili, as though it were we who had halted the march towards Europe. This is occurring at a time when all indicators and rankings demonstrate that Georgia outperforms several EU member states in key parameters regarded as benchmarks of European standards. Yet they made abundantly clear that political speculation is second nature to our opponents,” Volski stated.