Archil Talakvadze: Saakashvili's statement that "Rustaveli can be filled" is a call for destabilization

Everyone who is not in prison has the right to walk on Rustaveli! - Saakashvili also has external support and it is not excluded that he will become the head of the United Front of the collective radical opposition, Vice-Speaker Archil Talakvadze told reporters, responding to Mikheil Saakashvili's statements.

According to Talakvadze, his statement that "Rustaveli can be filled" is a call for destabilization and "the second series will be that he calls to attack state institutions".

"Everyone who is not in prison has the right to walk on Rustaveli! His statement once again confirms that we are dealing with an irresponsible politician who constantly changes his position. Sometimes he says that he is so sick, he can no longer assess the situation, sometimes he withdraws from politics, sometimes he is involved in Ukrainian politics, sometimes he manages his party from the shadows in Georgia, and today he already announced that he will be the leader of the collective "National Movement" and its political council. His statements are extremely frivolous and inconsistent. From the position of the chairman of the party, such people were removed from the position of the chairman of the party, whom he himself dressed and brought into politics from an incomprehensible space, who do not deserve the leadership, not only of this great opposition party, but of any opposition party, neither by experience nor by the work done, such people deprived Saakashvili of his chairmanship, influences and his political heritage. They started dividing. He now needs to prove on a daily basis that he is still a leader by making statements that attract the attention of the media. He wants to be the first story of the opposition channels and the news himself. I want to tell the public that there are dark forces that are trying to return Saakashvili to politics and they will not avoid using any method for this. His statements also show that he has external support, and it is possible that Saakashvili will regain his influence in the "National Movement" and become the head of the united front of the collective radical opposition. No one can prevent this, because these people are his subordinates, who were ruled by one party and one person for so many years. It was always a party of one man, and now this one man says, I will return as the chairman of the board," said Talakvadze.

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