Georgian Dream decides to extend mandate of temporary commission investigating National Movement activities to cover the period from 2003 to the present

We had consultations with the members of the commission and, in order to ensure that the scope of the commission’s activities is not limited to the investigation of anti-state and criminal acts committed before 2012, we decided to expand its mandate and extend it to the period after 2012, i.e., in total, from 2003 to the present, with a new resolution, - Mamuka Mdinaradze, the chairman of the Georgian Dream faction, stated at the briefing.

According to Mdinaradze, he does not rule out that the results of the investigative actions will become an additional basis for filing a constitutional lawsuit “to expose and ban agents’ parties.”

“During the work of the temporary investigative commission of the parliament, the need to investigate actions related to the events after 2012 was clearly identified. What the representatives of the opposition have committed in the past is a continuation of what they have been committing in recent years. Moreover, they are constantly engaged in attempts to overthrow or change the constitutional order of Georgia through violence and oppose the constitutional order of Georgia in other ways. In short, after 2012, they have committed numerous anti-state actions that require appropriate legal assessment and response.

In this regard, we had consultations with the members of the commission and, in order for the scope of the commission’s activities not to be limited only to the investigation of anti-state and criminal actions committed before 2012, we made a decision to expand its mandate and extend it with a new resolution after 2012, or in total, from 2003 to the present.

As is known to the public, intensive investigative actions are underway in the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia on these issues.

We will also await the results of the investigation underway in the Prosecutor's Office, which, we do not exclude, may also become an additional basis for filing a constitutional lawsuit to expose and ban agents’ parties," said Mamuka Mdinaradze.

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