“Before shedding tears here, think about the responsibility you once had in your hands and then crushed it because someone told you something from abroad and you got scared. Those who are not afraid continue to work and fight for their country,” – said Irakli Kadagishvili, Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Self-Government, addressing MPs from Gakharia for Georgia during the Parliament’s plenary session.

According to Kadagishvili, even when Giorgi Gakharia was “dismantling the government,” Georgian Dream took responsibility, and it continues to do so today in response to corruption-related challenges.

“What we are witnessing now is a performance of hypocrisy. There is no other way to call it. Why hypocrisy? It’s not that there are no problems in the country, but we are being lectured by a political team — led by its own leader — that abandoned Georgia at its most difficult moment and betrayed it. They betrayed the country to save the United National Movement — that was the task they received from the then U.S. Ambassador. The government was supposed to collapse.

Now, those same people are telling us what is better and what is worse — that higher pensions are better, higher incomes are better. If that’s what they believed, they shouldn’t have fled; they should have stayed and worked. But they didn’t take responsibility. They fled and left you here.

Georgian Dream, on the other hand, is a party that takes responsibility. When Gakharia was dismantling the government, we took responsibility. When there were corruption-related challenges, we took responsibility and acted.

Today, you claim you want a better life for the country, yet you hypocritically fight against investments — we will move forward with those investments. You refuse to support actions against the United National Movement, but we are filing a constitutional lawsuit precisely against them.

You now try to deflect by saying things like, ‘Givi Mikanadze worked there, someone else worked here.’ I stood on the barricades of the national movement — have I ever asked anyone where they worked? What matters is how you carried your personal responsibility when you worked. Remember that — that’s what truly matters!

Don’t trample on people when all you care about is satisfying your selfish political interests while sinking in hypocrisy.

So once again, if you’ve entered this Parliament, I ask you — don’t lecture us on morality. If you have constructive proposals, say them, and we will consider them. But before shedding tears here, think about the responsibility you once had in your hands and crushed just because someone pointed a finger at you from outside and you got scared. Those who are not afraid continue to work and fight for their country, even through the toughest challenges,” – said Irakli Kadagishvili.