"The fact that we cannot help people during heavy snowfall is a failure of the government's policy," said the Foreign Secretary of Strong Georgia on Palitra News' program Political Space.

According to Grigol Gegelia, the country is run by incompetent people.

"How many times have we seen that the state is unprepared for natural disasters? This is a lack of planning. We don’t have helicopters, tractors can’t get through, rescuers can’t reach people. Nobody knows what to do in times of crisis. Have you ever heard of such a thing? How we act during a crisis is a political issue—this is about state policy. Today, our country is run by fools who are not competent. They have no idea how to manage our lives, how to protect us, or even how to clear the snow. They also have no idea how to increase pensions or how to get us into NATO. The fact that we cannot help people during heavy snowfall is a complete failure of government policy.

Imagine the scale of the problem—we don’t even know what is happening there [in Guria]. Some people have lost phone service and have no connection with the outside world. Some parents can no longer feed their infants because they have no food. There are countless problems, and we are afraid of what else we don’t know yet—what we will find when we finally reach these people. Did it really take four days to deploy the army? They can’t buy a helicopter, they couldn’t set up an early warning system. We had the Vere Gorge disaster, then the Shovi landslide, and now we are watching these dullards and idiots rob us in broad daylight, rigging elections while we die in the process.

And then this shameless man [Mamuka Mdinaradze] comes out and says that the woman who died was 106 years old. Who asked whether she was 106 or how old she was? Maybe she could have lived to 115! According to Mamuka Mdinaradze, if someone is 106 years old, that means they don’t deserve to live anymore," said Grigol Gegelia.