“Organizations funded by the EU Embassy are preparing to disrupt the local self-government elections – this is a fact! We must speak out about this loudly,” – said the Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia, Shalva Papuashvili, in a statement to journalists.

According to him, the goal of Georgian Dream is to prevent the European Union from violating international law.

“Organizations are being funded with the sanction of the EU Ambassador, and they are already beginning work to disrupt the local self-government elections. EU budget funds are being spent in Georgia toward sabotaging these elections. This is a fact! We must speak out about this loudly.

Last year, before the elections, we tried to be considerate — to somehow be lenient or spare some of our foreign ambassadors or politicians — and we now see what that resulted in. Afterward, they interfered even more blatantly in our elections.

It must be stated clearly from the outset: organizations funded by the EU Embassy are preparing to sabotage the local self-government elections. Therefore, full responsibility will lie with the donors, and in every case, we will speak out loudly and expose both the organizations and the donors — because this constitutes a violation of international law.

Our mission is to ensure that the EU does not violate international law. This is also the will of our people — to preserve the reputation of the European Union, which Brussels bureaucracy is damaging. We must not allow Brussels bureaucrats or certain donors to undermine the EU’s reputation and the European values they so often talk about in words but violate in practice,” – Papuashvili stated.