Zurab Japaridze, one of the leaders of the Coalition for Change, is responding to Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, who stated that people should be given back the right to debates.

Zurab Japaridze personally invites Irakli Kobakhidze to the debates.

“Personally you, in any format, at any time,” Zurab Japaridze writes.

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.”