The statement made by Paweł Herczyński is extremely serious in its content. When the EU ambassador directly threatens the Georgian people with civil war and a return to poverty, it is very grave - a diplomatic step was taken, and the ambassador was summoned. This is what Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said regarding the summoning of the EU ambassador to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

According to him, the EU ambassador had also threatened the Georgian people ahead of the 2024 parliamentary elections, when he allegedly called on voters to go to the polls and bring the “collective National Movement” back to power.

“The statement made by Herczyński is extremely serious in its content. When the EU ambassador directly threatens the Georgian people with civil war and a return to poverty, it is very grave. He also threatened the Georgian people before the parliamentary elections, when he called on voters to go to polling stations and effectively return the collective ‘National Movement’ to power - that is what Paweł Herczyński’s call meant. The return of the collective ‘National Movement’ means a return to the dark past we have already experienced. The Georgian people do not want that, and that is why during the 2024 parliamentary elections they did not take Herczyński’s call into account. Instead, they acted in accordance with their own interests and did not return the country to that dark past.

This was nothing new - we are used to such statements from the EU ambassador. Essentially, he repeated the same message, but it was still considered necessary to respond. A diplomatic step was taken - the ambassador was summoned, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs listened to his explanations. I do not think further steps are necessary in this regard,” Kobakhidze stated.