I think the British Embassy exposed itself as the one financing extremism, hatred and propaganda in Georgia, - the Speaker of the Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, told journalists.

According to him, the British Ambassador finances non-governmental and media organizations the declared policy of which is to disrupt the local elections.

“It turned out that the British Ambassador was requesting permission to finance the party propaganda newspaper Tabula. It turned out that the British Ambassador was requesting permission from the Georgian government to finance radical political groups. They think we are stupid, I think, when the British ambassador thinks that the Georgian people will believe that the financing of the party propaganda wall newspaper, Tabula, is the financing of independent media and journalism. Perhaps they think the Georgian people are stupid if the British ambassador thinks that the financing of the NGO Future Academy serves to prepare something for the self-government elections. Let us remind everyone that all of these three are working to disrupt the self-government elections, just like Tabula and the political party behind it, as well as the so-called Future Academy. They have a declared policy to disrupt the self-government elections, and the British ambassador wants to give money to these people. I don't know what more harmful a person can say," Papuashvili said.

For information, the British Embassy in Georgia has announced that it has had to cancel planned grant proposals aimed at supporting the transparency and competitiveness of municipal elections. As the diplomatic mission explains, after discussions with the Georgian authorities, they were informed that the government's resolution "On the Grant Approval Procedure" has not yet been finalized and, accordingly, there are no mechanisms or deadlines for making decisions on the "Grant Approval Procedure" yet.