The court has its own agenda and decides who is to be appointed or not to be appointed to a specific position - the Government does not interfere in the affairs of the court! - This is how the first deputy chairman of the Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee, Davit Matikashvili, answered the question, to what extent the court had the right to stop the decree of the President, by which the President appointed Kakha Tsikarishvili as a member of the Supreme Council of Justice.

Matikashvili called the questions asked on the mentioned issue "speculative" and addressed a part of the media that they "like the situation existing before 2012, when the Government interfered very deeply and strictly in court decisions".

Matikashvili mentioned several times that "judiciary is an independent branch of the judiciary and it makes its own decisions regarding the persons to be appointed to the Supreme Council of Justice".

"The court is an independent instance, the court is an independent branch of the government, and it decides the fate of the persons to be appointed to the Supreme Council of Justice. President's right is President's right. The court decides the issues related to it independently, because it is an independent branch of the Government.

The media controlled by the radical opposition are very keen to cover the scene of government interference in the court case. You like the situation before 2012, when the government interfered very deeply and strictly in the decisions of other branches of government. You want a situation where the chairman of the legal affairs committee of the parliament, the chairman of the justice council and the chairman of the Supreme Court were very close relatives, and the executive power directly interfered with the rights of the court. You will not see or hear such a thing!" Davit Matikashvili addressed the media.

According to the decision of the Tbilisi City Court, the decree of the President of Georgia on July 15, 2024 on the appointment of Kakha Tsikarishvili as a member of the Supreme Council of Justice was suspended. In addition, as stated in the court, until the final completion of the proceedings in the case, the President of Georgia was prohibited from holding a new competition and appointing another new member of the Supreme Council of Justice of Georgia in any form.