They have known us for 35 years, they came here, ate khinkali, khachapuri, looked at the Mother of Kartli, and read two verses of The Knight in the Tiger's Skin, but they are not in their right mind, they still are not aware who they are dealing with, they still are not aware that they cannot tell the Georgian people - do you want a visa or freedom?! - This is how the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili responded to the statement of the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, according to whom the suspension of visas may be extended to the entire population if the government fails to resolve the problems.

According to Papuashvili, the European Union is blackmailing Georgia, which once again shows the "value gap" in which, in his assessment, the current rulers of the said organization are.

“Such statements are also good in terms of seeing what we are really dealing with. In reality, the EU leadership is an ordinary blackmailer who is blackmailing the entire nation. The main reason is that today the people in power in Georgia are not the ones they wanted to be. The EU ambassador himself was involved in the election campaign. Ursula von der Leyen’s representative in Tbilisi was himself involved in the campaign against the Georgian Dream, they were funding organizations for the election campaign. He was defeated in these elections, the Georgian Dream won, and after that we see constant attacks against Georgia. The main message of this blackmail is as follows: “Georgian people, either you will obey our will and do what we tell you, we will appoint your judges, we will appoint your prosecutors, we will legalize same-sex marriage, as they are asking everyone to do now, we will make you adopt this law, we will make you repeal that law, you will do what we tell you, or you will have to come to our embassy to get a visa.” They have known us for 35 years, they came here, ate khinkali, khachapuri, looked at the Mother of Kartli, and read two verses of The Knight in the Tiger's Skin, but they are not in their right mind, they still are not aware who they are dealing with, they still are not aware that they cannot tell the Georgian people - do you want a visa or freedom?!,” Papuashvili said.

For information, Ursula von der Leyen stated that the suspension of visas could be extended to the entire population if the problems are not resolved by the government.