Ana Tsitslidze: Gvaramia told me, “I will push Misha aside and in 2028 Bidzina will hand over power to me”; I thought he had gone mad - it turns out we were not of his weight; if I had robbed Saakashvili, I would have had more weight - I can bury him politically so that he can never raise his head again
Gvaramia told me, “I am Merab Kostava, I know exactly, I will push Misha to third or fourth place, I will be the main opposition force and at the latest in 2028, if not before, Bidzina will hand over power to me”; at that time I thought, this one has gone mad, - this was stated by Ana Tsitslidze, a member of the Governing Board of the “United National Movement,” on the PalitraNews program “Resume.”
In addition, according to Tsitslidze, she truly thinks that Gvaramia “sold himself,” because Nika Gvaramia was telling everyone that Nika Gilauri is “the golden key, this man is agreed with Bidzina and Bidzina will hand over power to him without problems.”
“We asked questions and instead of answers we received hysteria. The answers from Gvaramia’s side are only insults. [He said that] Tsitslidze is not of my weight and I will not sit in debates; now I am trying to gain weight and reach his weight. The one who created this political weight for him, Mikheil Saakashvili, Gvaramia went to prison, swore by Saakashvili’s sun, and when he came out of prison he became Saakashvili’s sworn enemy and first enemy. Therefore questions exist. Melia may look much more direct in this issue than Gvaramia, because Gvaramia knows he cannot swear openly and publicly and had enough sense for that, but what he did in deed is the heaviest form of betrayal. If there had been no Misha, who was Gvaramia at all? Misha created him from beginning to end. I can tell many details and I can bury Gvaramia politically so that he can never raise his head again.
Now let us start in connection with Gilauri; first of all, this man was being pushed on us as prime minister throughout the entire election campaign. He was telling everyone that this man is agreed with Bidzina and Bidzina will hand over power to him without problems; he is the golden key. He was meeting everyone informally and telling them that Gilauri would be the most acceptable candidate for the premiership for Bidzina Ivanishvili; accordingly, everyone should agree to his candidacy for the premiership. These are Gvaramia’s words.
Gvaramia is flattering us that supposedly some of us here were not of his weight. Excuse me, if I had robbed Mikheil Saakashvili, I would have had more weight than Gvaramia. [By robbery I mean] absolutely everything - his moral resource as well, the financial resource of the ‘National Movement’ as well, and everything. He had a salary of 20 thousand dollars at ‘Mtavari,’ while we in many cases did not even have money for fuel, that is how we were conducting the election campaign. At ‘Rustavi 2’ he had a salary of another 85 thousand lari. If I had robbed in that way the person who did the most for me in life, I might have had more weight than Gvaramia,” - Ana Tsitslidze stated.
