People who seriously talk about democracy and real political debates do not lock their opposing political leaders in prison, - Khatia Dekanoidze, one of the leaders of the National Movement, writes on social networks.

With this, she is responding to the statement of Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, where he notes that public discussion should return to public life.

"Kobakhidze said that debates should return to public life.

People who seriously talk about democracy and real political debates do not lock their opposing political leaders in prison. Nika Gvaramia is in prison.

Open the TV company "Imedi" and we are ready to talk to people:

- about political prisoners;

- about repressive legislation;

- about the isolation of Georgia;

- about the fading international prospects;

- about young people who are leaving the country;

- about pensioners who cannot buy medicine;

- about the Prosecutor General, who is a Russian agent and orders murder;

- about corruption and officials who have enriched themselves by taking food from children in kindergartens;

- about chemical poisoning;

- about real peace, which Ivanishvili has refused to accept.

- and about the people who cannot buy food because of catastrophic prices.

Open the Imedi channel,” Dekanoidze wrote.

Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze wrote on social media that in order for the Georgian people to make any choice in the future based on correct analysis, they should have the opportunity to publicly hear the positions of all political groups that have the ambition to be in power.

“We are obliged to return to the Georgian people one of the fundamental principles of democracy, the right to debate, and not allow informal forces and their “Georgian” agents to impose their own agenda on us. We must return public discussion to public life, which is vital for the functioning of a full democracy,” the Prime Minister noted.

In addition, according to Kobakhidze, the plan of the informal oligarchic government to suppress dissent, destroy any space for debate, and limit as much as possible any public platform that exposes their ideology has affected Georgia, although with the difference that the “deep state” agents have only managed to do one thing: to stop the long-standing culture of political, economic, and social debates in the country.

According to him, the main standard-bearer for the implementation of this task of the informal rulers has become Nika Gvaramia, “who was tasked with complete radicalization by his patrons.”