Grigol Gegelia - Anaklia Port should be built with American, not Russian-Chinese, obscure capital, and Ivanishvili's meeting with Aliyev showed that the state has atrophied and there is no difference between Bidzina's apartment and the Cabinet of Ministers

It turned out that Georgia does not have a Prime Minister, a President - Georgia has Bidzina Ivanishvili's servants with different images and names, and when it comes to any important issue, we see who the real boss is - at a crucial moment everyone goes to the boss and asks his opinion, - Grigol Gegelia, one of the leaders of the party Lelo-Strong Georgia, stated on PalitraNews while assessing the visit of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to Georgia.

As Gegelia explained, now that new geopolitical realities are being sorted out in the region and the fate of new energy lines is being decided, they go to Bidzina Ivanishvili to discuss the above issues, because they know that Ivanishvili is the real leader of all the main processes in Georgia.

According to Gegelia, the representatives of the Cabinet of Ministers play the game of pretending to be rulers, but there comes a point when the game is no longer possible, because the situation demands the appearance of a real leader.

“There is no president, no cabinet of ministers - to use Ivanishvili’s words, there are “call them whatever you want” people. That’s what Ivanishvili called the prime minister who is currently in prison. Then he will put this [Irakli Kobakhidze] in prison and he will have a new servant. Ivanishvili views these people as objects. Kobakhidze is also an object. Today he is an influential object, tomorrow he will be gone. Irakli Gharibashvili was also very influential and where is he today?! Grigol Liluashvili was influential, but where is he today?! Why does Kobakhidze think that he is an exception in something? - Is he smarter than Liluashvili? Does he have darker thoughts than Gharibashvili? - They are all equal pawns!

Have you ever heard that ministers were locked in a private person’s house and a private person introduced them to the head of state of another country? - We are absolutely in a fantasy! This is an anomaly, the state has atrophied and there is no difference between Bidzina’s apartment and the cabinet of ministers. They are playing the scenario of pretending to be rulers, but there are moments when the game is no longer working, because the situation demands that a real leader appear, and he does,” said Grigol Gegelia.

In Gegelia’s opinion, Ilham Aliyev’s visit to Georgia is directly related to the ongoing processes in the region – specifically, to the issues of energy security and energy policy.

“The situation is clear - on the one hand, a new corridor is being created with the direct involvement of Trump, which bears Trump’s name. We made an initiative in this regard yesterday. The logical continuation of this road to the west should be the Anaklia deep-sea port project. We said that it should also be named after Trump. Some people focused on this. People can no longer see that there is already a road that has rewritten the entire dynamics of security and transit in the South Caucasus. If the Anaklia port is built, it will itself be a functional unit of this road - it will be part of this chain. I don’t know what they found surprising in the fact that it is also be called the same name. The Trump road already exists, and the Anaklia port should be a logical continuation of this road and this chain,” Grigol Gegelia said.

Speaking about the Anaklia deep-sea port project, Gegelia emphasized that the priority for Lelo is not that Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze build the Anaklia port, but that the port be built, because Georgia needs it.

“It is also extremely important that Anaklia be built with a proper, transparent contract, and not like an Arab-forged-project, sanctioned corrupt Chinese companies or Russian-Chinese companies channeling obscure capital, which the Dream loves.

Anaklia should be built with American capital, by Euro-Atlantic transparent quality financial institutions, and we will be very happy - the main thing for us is that the Anaklia port be built and Georgia does not miss the chance. Such a chance comes once in a century,” Grigol Gegelia said.

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