Vice Speaker Volski: Which of our accusations lacks merit, and what European nation would tolerate structures aimed at destabilisation?

“Groups calling themselves political parties are trying to create a similar situation in Georgia based on brazenly fabricated accusations of election fraud, a change of foreign policy course and the oppression of sexual minorities. That is a fact,” Gia Volski, First Vice Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, wrote on social media.

He said these groups’ efforts to sabotage the state governance system, accompanied by aggressive protests and revolutions, are organised and systematic.

“All of Europe has been shaken by a bloody, merciless war and the real danger of it spreading, as well as by extremely dangerous processes under way in leading countries. The overall picture we follow every day on television and in other media is horrifying.

In this situation, groups calling themselves political parties are trying to create a similar situation in Georgia based on brazenly fabricated accusations of election fraud, a change of foreign policy course and the oppression of sexual minorities. That is a fact! We can see it, and they don’t hide it. Their efforts to sabotage the state governance system, accompanied by aggressive protests and revolutions, are organised and systematic!

The same goes for the well-coordinated propaganda by domestic and foreign actors about Georgia’s ‘democratic backsliding’. They created the offenders themselves, then branded the lawful response to their actions a departure from European standards. They are calling for sanctions that would harm the country’s people and, in their view, fuel revolutionary fervour. Those who held the reins of power before 2012 are leading this conspiracy against Georgia. They ruled the country with extreme brutality, physically destroyed, tortured and stripped thousands of Georgian citizens of their rights, and created the preconditions for the occupation of a large part of the country. To this day, they are trying to sacrifice Georgia as cannon fodder on the altar of global confrontation, economically ruined and stripped of rights. Concrete facts confirm this reality, and it is why we turned to the Constitutional Court.

Of course, attacks were to be expected. What is surprising is that leading the charge are the leaders of European institutions and the political leaders of certain countries, who only recently were encouraging, with money and political support, the throwing of Molotov cocktails and fireworks in Georgia. Surely they can now see clearly the once-invisible threads linking managed chaos to the acute problems emerging in Europe. Talk to us with concrete arguments. Tell us which of our charges is baseless, why it would benefit Georgia to enter an economic, let alone military, confrontation, or which European state would tolerate an organised structure geared towards destabilising the country,” Volski wrote.

Gudrun Kugler, Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, has called on the Georgian authorities to withdraw the lawsuit seeking to ban five opposition parties and return to the path of democracy.