“Will I pay the bail? We’ll see. I won’t decide that alone; I’ll decide it together with my team because this affects not only me personally, but also my party,” said Nika Gvaramia, one of the leaders of “Coalition for Change,” after the court session in which the judge imposed a 30,000 GEL bail for his failure to appear before the temporary parliamentary investigative commission.

Gvaramia does not rule out the possibility that he might not pay the bail at all.

“It was clearly a disaster for the prosecution. They shouldn’t come to court with such nonsense and be so unprepared, in my opinion. The judge – in this case, and not just in my opinion – in 10 out of 10 cases, an independent judge would not have made this decision. This particular judge would not have made this decision either.

30,000 GEL bail for 50 days. Whether I pay it or not, we’ll see. I won’t decide that alone. I’ll decide with my team, because all of this has implications and an impact not just on me, but on my party as well. So we must make the decision together. However, I absolutely do not rule out that I may not pay it,” Gvaramia said.

As for the prosecution’s claims about the risk of flight and committing a new offense, Gvaramia told journalists that he didn’t go into hiding even when he was charged with a crime carrying a 12-year sentence.

He added that the coming months will be months of repression.

“Where would I hide? When I was facing 12 years, I didn’t hide, and now because of Tsulukiani’s nonsense, I’m supposed to hide? What nonsense. I have better things to do. And as for committing a new crime – the fact that I didn’t go to Tsulukiani, how could that possibly lead to a new crime? Should I shoot her next time? Kill her? What am I supposed to do? I’m genuinely curious.

These upcoming months will be full of attempts to arrest people, a time of repression – especially May, June, and July – that’s always evident. And August is always the peak of arrests. But let’s not dwell on that; let Georgian Dream think about it – how far the processes connected to them, both inside and outside the country, can go. They should think about it and stop this in time because it could lead to a very bad ending for them,” said Gvaramia.