Shalva Papuashvili: The third round does not make sense for the political parties that are capricious

According to Shalva Papuashvili, one of the leaders of the Georgian Dream, the third round does not make sense for the political parties that are capricious, and the Georgian Dream will draw the necessary conclusions for the country from this process.

As Papuashvili stated on PalitraNews TV, despite the fact that the agreement was not reached, the Georgian Dream will carry out electoral and judicial reform within the framework of its own responsibility.

According to him, the Georgian Dream fully agrees with the document proposed by Christian Danielsson.

"We were there for about 7 hours. Our separate meeting with the mediator lasted 5 minutes and the joint format last about 55 minutes, i.e. there was a total of 1 hour where we were involved in the mediation process. And then we were waiting for 6 hours, when the mediator was talking separately to the representatives of parties to convince them that it was important to reach an agreement. The last thing we saw was an ultimatum, not to us, but to the mediators. The mediator said that the issue of early elections was not in the document, he explained to the ambassadors that the EU was guided by the OSCE/ODIHR reports and other reports and that the EU had no reason to doubt the legitimacy of the election results. This issue was therefore closed and the document did not address that issue. This prompted our opponents to make an ultimatum. The second issue, which was also raised as an ultimatum, was the immediate release of Giorgi Rurua, which, as you know, was not reflected in Danielsson's document. When we read this document, we said that we agreed with it. We had a few, purely legal remarks. The opposition rejected this document, called it a lame document and said that this document was unacceptable," Papuashvili said.

As for the issue of amnesty relating to the June 20 cases, according to Papuashvili, the opposition is interested in keeping Nika Melia in prison.

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