“Last year, they told us that we refused the EU accession process, and they fueled protests with this. Now it ‘turns out’ that it’s the fault of ‘authoritarian governance,’ and we urgently need to change course,” writes Mamuka Mdinaradze, the leader of the parliamentary majority, on Facebook, responding to the European Parliament’s statement that “Georgia will not be able to join the EU until its government changes its authoritarian course.”
According to Mdinaradze, this statement “strikingly coincides” with the protest announced for today.
“Last year, they told us that we refused the EU accession process, and they fueled protests with this. Now it ‘turns out’ that it’s the fault of ‘authoritarian governance,’ and we urgently need to change course.
Now everything is clear. What is needed for this? 1. We must change the current form of governance and establish one like Saakashvili had. The ‘beacon of democracy’ shouldn’t have been extinguished so harshly, and we must correct this. In principle, it will be difficult for us, but agents know better how to arrange this, and ‘fair elections’ imply bringing them to power; 2. We must join the CIS and have an economy like Moldova’s; 3. We must have the same relationship with Russia as Ukraine does—in open war; 4. We must abandon family values and similar ‘Georgian-national whims,’ as they directly wrote to us a few days ago.
In this case, the European Parliament’s statement will be completely different—moreover, positive and supportive.
Blackmail with visa liberalization alone, as it seems, isn’t working; additional measures are needed against the Georgian people, who have never renounced themselves—everyone will have to come to terms with this!
P.S. Today, the radicals have announced a protest, which, despite two weeks of preparation, was essentially a failure, and something was needed to ‘boost’ it. What a striking coincidence this statement is,” writes Mdinaradze.
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