Nika Gvaramia to Archil Gorduladze: If anyone thinks the word “catastrophe” is an insult, let him study well at school - it is not my problem. You have written “sabotage” and “traitor” 37 times - that is an insult!

If anyone thinks the word “catastrophe” is an insult, let him study well at school — it is not my problem. You have written “sabotage” and “traitor” 37 times — that is an insult! — this is how the leader of the “Coalition for Change,” Nika Gvaramia, responded at the session of the Constitutional Court to a member of the plaintiff side, member of the ruling party Archil Gorduladze, who interrupted Gvaramia’s speech and told him that his terminology is a “direct insult.”

As Gvaramia noted, the documentation requested in the motion he submitted is needed by him to strengthen his own position.

“Witnesses and evidence are not only confirmatory of something; they are also incriminating. I want the neutralization of their positions; I need evidence for myself against them. Whether they confirm something for themselves or cannot confirm it is not my business.

I am interested in forming positions in relation to them. In relation to what they have been fabricating for months and because of which people have ended up in prison, now they are abolishing parties and, most importantly, they are writing catastrophic texts for Georgia’s state positions — every one of the signatories is there,” Gvaramia stated.

Archil Gorduladze had a short remark on Gvaramia’s words. According to him, “this is a direct insult,” to which Gvaramia himself responded and noted: “What is a direct insult? You have written ‘sabotage’ and ‘traitor’ 37 times — that is an insult.”

Judge of the Constitutional Court Revaz Nadaraia tried to defuse the situation between the parties to the lawsuit and noted that “the assessments are understandable; however, [Nika Gvaramia’s statement] ‘something catastrophic is written for the state’ cannot be acceptable for the party.”

In response to the judge’s statement, Nika Gvaramia noted that he only wanted to assess the record.

“I am not insulting anyone; I am assessing the record politically, geopolitically and legally. If anyone thinks the word ‘catastrophe’ is an insult, let him study well at school — it is not my problem,” Gvaramia stated.