According to the survey of the National Democratic Institute (NDI), most of the respondents believe that the National Bank of Georgia urged Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze to resign due to political interests.

In particular, 62% of those who have heard of the TBC Bank case think that the case was politicaly motivated. Only 16% think that the decision of the National Bank was largely motivated by an independent investigation. 22% do not know.

The NDI survey results reflect data collected from March 28 to April 15, 2019, through face-to-face interviews with a nationwide representative sample of Georgia’s adult population (excluding occupied territories), including oversamples in Azeri and Armenian ethnic minority settlements. This included 2,927 completed interviews. The average margin of error was +/- 2.3 percent.