The Parliamentary Temporary Investigative Commission has given Giorgi Gakharia, the leader of the "For Georgia" party, until July 2 to appear before the parliamentary investigative commission.

According to the commission’s chairperson, July 2 is the final deadline for Gakharia to attend the session.

"During a two-minute break, we verified that there is no information at the visa bureau indicating that Mr. Giorgi Gakharia fulfilled the commission’s lawful requirement to appear at the session today at 12:00. I want to remind everyone of the procedure: we sent notifications to Mr. Giorgi through various means, including phone contact and postal services. In three instances, we received confirmation that he was aware he was required to appear today at 12:00, and he knew this while he was still in Georgia. First, a text message was sent to him, informing him that he was summoned for the second time, to which his representative, an assistant, responded by contacting our secretariat. The representative expressed surprise about why a second summons was necessary. This confirms that Mr. Giorgi was informed of the text message sent to him. The issues to be discussed were explained, including the Chorchana episode, Georgia’s activities on the international stage, and his role from 2012 to 2025. Following this, we sent a written notification—official, postal, on behalf of the commission. As you know, when we deliberate and make decisions at working meetings, those decisions take the form of a letter signed by the commission’s chairperson and are sent to all individuals. We have not made exceptions to this practice, and every letter has always been sent with my signature. This case is no different; the letter was sent to his registered address. At the registered address, Mr. Giorgi’s parent received the letter from the ‘courier’ and signed a document accepting responsibility to inform him of the letter’s contents and deliver it to him. Subsequently, on June 16, in Tbilisi, in Tsakvi, Mr. Giorgi Gakharia personally signed and received a notification that he was required to appear with us today, June 23, at 12:00. According to the courier’s protocol, he made no indication at the time that he could not or would not attend or that he planned to leave the country. On the contrary, as the courier told our secretariat, he received the letter very courteously, politely, and with a cooperative attitude, signing for it. A few days later, in fact, two days ago, the same representative contacted the secretariat, stating that Giorgi Gakharia had left the country and, therefore, could not appear on Monday, requesting to be included remotely. Initially, the request or motion was that he could not participate on June 23 but would participate on some other day because he did not plan to return to the country for several weeks. Later, the request changed to state that they intended to cooperate with the commission and that, since he could not attend on June 23 at the appointed time, he would participate remotely at 12:00. We, the commission members, discussed this, and a response was sent to him under my signature regarding the official letter they had submitted in the meantime, requesting inclusion on June 23 at 12:00. The commission’s response stated that this request was not satisfied, and he was required to appear in person today at 12:00. It is now 12:30, and he still has not appeared," said Tsulukiani.