Guram Macharashvili: Who asks the British Embassy what will happen in political processes, elections, and where we send the draft law and where not? - These were the functions of the Tsar's deputy, who was sitting in Georgia during the Russian Empire, and now the embassies here have taken on these functions

Who asks the British Embassy what will happen in political processes, elections, and where to send the draft law and where not - these were the functions of the Second Secretary of the Central Committee and the Tsar's deputy, who was sitting in Georgia during the Russian Empire, and now the embassies here have taken on these functions, - Guram Macharashvili, a member of the People's Power Party, said while assessing the statement of the British Embassy in Georgia.

He called on the British Ambassador to "come out and say why he transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds sterling to Georgia."

"Foreign powers saw that their representation here was no longer useful and involved their ambassadors and embassies in politics. We are dealing with such an unprecedented case that the European Union and its bureaucracy have directly let their ambassadors and embassy representatives into the opposition in Georgia, who come out and lecture the public on who to vote for, they lecture the parliament on how to pass laws. Today, a representative of the British embassy comes out and says that the funding supposedly served good causes. Let him come out and say what it served. Let him say what those hundreds of thousands of pounds sterling were used for. Who asks the British embassy at all what will happen in the political processes, what will happen in the elections, and where to send the draft law that we should develop in parliament and where not. We are saying this precisely, these were the functions of the Second Secretary of the Central Committee and the Tsar's deputy, who was sitting in Georgia during the Russian Empire, and now the embassies here took on these functions. Then they say, why do you talk like that? Well, those people did nothing more. They interfered in Georgia's internal affairs. They lived here, in Georgia, just like these ambassadors. Who asks the British or any ambassador at all, including the European Union or German ambassador, to determine what draft law I will submit to the parliament and what not? Did the British and European Union ambassadors elect me to the parliament?! Or did the Georgian society elect me?! This is their deciphered direct statement that these people represent the "deep state" today, the global war party," - Macharashvili said.

The British Embassy in Georgia encourages the Georgian Government to extend an invitation to ODIHR/OSCE to observe October’s municipal elections and take forward all recommendations in ODIHR’s final report on the 2024 parliamentary election, - reads a statement issued by the British Embassy today.

In addition, as noted in the statement, Georgian legislation makes provision for citizen monitoring, which is an important part of professional and transparent scrutiny of elections.