The Speaker of Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, positively assesses the decision of former Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia, leader of the Gakharia for Georgia party, to attend the session of the temporary investigative commission of the parliament.

As Papuashvili told journalists, he hopes that Gakharia will comprehensively answer the questions of the commission members.

“It is good that Giorgi Gakharia is coming [to the investigative commission session]. I hope he will answer the questions that the commission has in detail. You know that there are questions, including those regarding June 20. The European Court of Human Rights issued a decision regarding June 20, it determined that there may have been certain violations against the demonstrators during the operation and that this issue needs to be re-investigated. Giorgi Gakharia was the one who led this event at that time. The parliamentary investigative commission is interested in exactly what decisions were made by politically responsible persons and what consequences these decisions led to. I hope that he will not evade the questions that the commission will ask.

As for the fact that only one of the politicians is coming to the investigative commission session, his party is in the parliament! If someone is pretending that he is not there... he is in the parliament, they have not rejected their mandates. So, they are members of parliament. How can they deceive their voters or others that they are not in the parliament, whereas they are in the parliament, such things do not happen. There is no such thing as half-pregnancy. So, they are members of parliament!"- Papuashvili said.