The debate titled Attempts by the ruling party, Georgian Dream, to ban opposition parties in Georgia opens on Wednesday 7 October at 19:00 local time, with the vote on Thursday 8 October, Interpressnews reported from the parliament’s agenda. Gorduladze told journalists that empirical experience shows every such resolution worthless, that the party has exactly the same expectations of the new one and that it will be another attack on Georgia’s sovereignty by people backed by a force that wants Georgia used as a proxy state. The reply came before the text.
This week the ruling party’s answers to Europe have run along one line: Kakha Kaladze said on Sunday that ALDE’s letter on sanctions would have zero effect, and on Monday that the events of 4 October were orchestrated from Europe, while Speaker Shalva Papuashvili left for Tanzania and the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s assembly, where, he said on Tuesday, parliamentary speakers from different continents meet in one place.
The reply came before the text.
From the opposition, Grigol Gegelia said on Tuesday that the fact that banning political parties is being considered in Georgia puts the country on the path of Belarus and Russia and that there will be a strong response from the civilised world.
The resolution’s draft was not on the parliament’s public pages by Tuesday evening, and the hour of the debate is printed by the Georgian agency as local time without naming the city.