Aleko Elisashvili: They are lazy to work in the parliament, but they want all the benefits

"It is a surprising story that they are lazy to work in the parliament, but they want all the benefits," Aleko Elisashvili, the leader of the Citizens' Party, told reporters before the first meeting of the parliamentary election reform working group.

As Elisashvili noted, the opposition, which is boycotting the work of the parliament, is "cursing" the second part of the opposition, which is trying to reach an agreement with the government on electoral reform.

"The goal is to finally get the elections, election rules, procedures, election administration that we will be able to trust. We have wanted this for 30 years and we have not achieved it yet. The process started today should take the form of a bill by March 1 and should become a law until May 1. All this should lead to credible elections and this will be, in my opinion, the most serious achievement in the country and a step forward. If the elections are held honestly, it will make this country better and then we will be able to change the government through elections so that there will be no revolutions, coups, boycotts or street protests.

If we pass this bill as it is written in the memorandum, it automatically means that Tamar Zhvania should no longer be the chairperson of CEC," Elisashvili said.

As for the establishment of a fact-finding commission to study the results of the 2020 parliamentary elections, Elisashvili says that "citizens" are not going to participate in the work of the commission.