The National Movement faction demands the establishment of a temporary investigative commission in the Parliament regarding the Racha disaster and its consequences.

According to the chairwoman of the faction, Tina Bokuchava, when the number of victims is increasing day by day, there are two main questions, whether it was possible to prevent the Racha tragedy if there had been an early warning system, and whether there was a timely and effective response from the state institutions.

According to Bokuchava, the government of Georgian Dream, including Irakli Gharibashvili personally, promised to introduce a monitoring system to the public for many years.

"Even in the 2014 socio-economic strategy of Georgia, the implementation of modern early warning systems is defined as a priority task. The same goal appears in other official state documents. In 2018, the state received a $70 million grant from Western partners for the implementation of the monitoring system. Implementation of the system has been prioritized in the 2020 state budget, but we can see that the early warning system has not been created and the program outlined in the budget has not been implemented.

Moreover, the former Minister of Environment Levan Davitashvili, who is now the Minister of Economy and Vice-Prime Minister and who 5 years ago insisted on the necessity of a monitoring system, says today that a similar tragedy would be inevitable under any conditions, no matter what systems we had and thus justifies the absence of a warning system and non-targeted spending of the budget.

The possible waste of budget expenses, illegal actions of the relevant officials and the failure of the implementation of the monitoring system are the direct grounds for the creation of the parliamentary investigative commission.

Various expert groups, as well as members of the non-parliamentary opposition, also came forward with this initiative. We, including based on these considerations, and against the background of zero trust in investigative agencies, consider it expedient to create a parliamentary investigative commission regarding the disaster in Shovi," said Tina Bokuchava.

Another issue that, according to Bokuchava, should be studied by the parliamentary investigative commission is the adequacy and effectiveness of the state's response to the disaster.

"The responsible persons should explain to the investigative commission and the public: how timely and operative was the response of the state agencies in the first hours of the disaster.

Yesterday, we heard an immoral justification from the Chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the Parliament, Mikheil Sarjveladze, who said, I am quoting and I apologize to the public: "Those who did not came under there, all survived, whether we started the search in 15 minutes or 1 hour, what impact could it have" - all this while the survivors claim that every minute was important for survival. This statement by Sarjveladze means that the government has doomed people to death.

Additional questions that should be answered within the framework of the investigative commission are why the state did not acquire the relevant rescue helicopters for 11 years; Among them, why the state refused the rescue helicopters allocated in the form of a grant, which was provided by the United States of America; why the relevant rescue service does not have equipment of modern standards; Under these circumstances, why didn't the government ask for help from the neighboring countries; why didn't the Minister of Internal Affairs, Vakhtang Gomelauri, get involved in the rescue operation, when in civilized countries, during such disasters, the relevant person informs the public once an hour," Bokuchava said.