Tbilisi (GBC) - Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili assesses the ongoing political processes in the opposition spectrum, namely between the “National Movement” and the “Opposition Alliance”, and calls their confrontation a “circus”.
According to Papuashvili, the opposition parties are confronting each other with the same methods that they used to use against their own country.
“I said, they have already done it, they have eaten each other, and now they have started to do it again and eat each other. Let’s watch, let’s get a little pleasure from this. What they used to do to their own country, they are now doing exactly the same to each other. So let’s observe and enjoy it,” the Parliament Speaker noted.
He compared the National Movement’s positioning in opposition unity to the Georgian feature film “Blue Mountains.”
“Like “Blue Mountains,” they can’t tell if they’re here or there. We, as “Blue Mountains,” should watch this comedy that they’re making us watch,” Papuashvili said.
According to the head of the legislative body, these processes also indicate the irrationality of the external forces that organize these groups. According to him, this reality reveals “what kind of people are sitting in Brussels and some capitals” who are betting on the aforementioned opposition unity.
“Didn’t they stand by them in the 2024 elections? Didn’t they say, ‘Vote for them,’ or ‘Don’t they make resolutions on their orders and in agreement with them?’ The Georgian people should also see what we are dealing with. When Brussels and other forces that are behind them cannot be identified in such simple issues, can you imagine that they should hand over international politics and geopolitics to them? That is why there is chaos in the world today, war in Ukraine today,” Shalva Papuashvili said.
The Chairman of the Parliament linked the local opposition’s governance model to the global political context and noted that the collapse of the security architecture in the international arena is precisely the result of such approaches.
“What is happening in the opposition is a mini-example of what is happening in the world thanks to the same forces that we call the ‘global war party’ and the ‘deep state.’” "The name may be different, but the essence is the same - these are the people whose governance model we see in the form of the radical opposition. They turned the political space into a circus and they are doing exactly the same thing on the international political platform, and that is why the global security system has collapsed," said Shalva Papuashvili.
