Any person you stop on the street will tell you that what they did is neither manly, nor urban, nor Georgian, and does not fit anywhere at all. After that, they come out and respond to us with completely talentless and incomprehensible humor. What do they think, now we will also stand up and do the same and descend to their level? In no case will we descend to their level, - this is how one of the leaders of “Gakharia – For Georgia,” Giorgi Sharashidze, responds to the statement of the “Georgian Dream” deputy, which concerned the investigation of the confrontation that occurred in parliament between members of “Georgian Dream” and the party “Gakharia For Georgia.”
As Giorgi Sharashidze stated, the statement of the parliamentary majority leader Irakli Kirtskhalia regarding what happened in parliament is “completely irresponsible and talentless cynicism.”
“The perpetrators, lawbreakers, and abusers are there, and on top of all this, they are unserious. How can one even make a serious comment on what was said? What should we do now, sorry, in my childhood there was such a phrase: ‘Should we laugh in our armpits?’ Should I ask this to Kirtskhalia now, or what is the conversation about? Such a completely unserious crime occurred, which is not only a crime committed against us, it directly indicates and testifies that in Georgia the law does not rule at all and someone is above the law - apparently whoever is Mdinardze’s friend, and now it turns out that Kirtskhalia himself is ready to petition the Prosecutor’s Office? So Kirtskhalia and Mdinardze stand above the law, is this the reality? - under the conditions of ‘Dream,’ these people who have crossed all kinds of [boundaries]. How can I put it, this is no longer even called unseriousness, it is no longer called childishness. This is completely irresponsible, dismissive [talk], cynicism, and also talentless. In some way interesting and liked by someone. He speaks with completely talentless humor on such an important topic that is directly related to fair arrangement,” Giorgi Sharashidze stated.
According to his explanation, they did not file a statement with the Prosecutor’s Office regarding the confrontation that occurred only because their rights were violated; they also filed it “because they are fighting on behalf of those people who are completely unjustly serving sentences.”
“Compared to this crime, they are serving sentences for much lighter and absolutely painless crimes, they have been in the ‘Dream’s’ prisons for years, and of course we have no right to stop. Who said and who established that a case cannot be opened against a deputy?” - Giorgi Sharashidze stated and noted that “here we are dealing with an organized and group attack.”
According to his information, there are four countries where, for the same crime, legal prosecution was launched against members of parliament. According to Giorgi Sharashidze, these are Great Britain, Greece, South Korea, and Senegal.
“We set precedent upon precedent every day, which they see well, and this caused a completely inadequate reaction. Well, what else should we call Mr. Kirtskhalia’s briefing? Should we laugh in armpits with them? This is an event that caused widespread outrage in the country, by the way, even among their own supporters, from a legal and moral point of view,” Sharashidze stated to “TV Pirveli.”
Recall that the leader of the parliamentary majority, Irakli Kirtskhalia, today made the following comment to the media regarding the physical confrontation with representatives of “Gakharia’s party” in parliament: “In Senegal, one colleague kicked a pregnant colleague with a leg or hand. Let Mr. [Giga] Farulava present a certificate about the pregnancy and I promise, I myself will petition the Prosecutor’s Office to open some kind of case against us regarding this accusation - they didn’t cry at the tribune, they did everything else,” Irakli Kirtskhalia stated.