Georgian Parliament official says investigative commission’s findings underpin lawsuit against opposition parties

Nino Tsilosani, the Vice Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, said on Monday that the constitutional lawsuit filed by the ruling team was firmly substantiated and followed a series of significant developments, including the work of the investigative commission, which identified the key grounds underpinning the lawsuit.

In an interview with Imedi TV, Tsilosani said there were well-founded reasons for including all five parties in the proposed unified ban.

“Developments have shown that, unfortunately, the destructive and malevolent ideology of the [United] National Movement [party] is so toxic and virulently contagious that every new party that joined it automatically became part of the same criminal narrative. They collaborated and sent letters containing false accusations against their own country, urging foreign partners and states to punish a government that legitimately represents the Georgian people. There can be no greater proof of this than the fact that they themselves signed these appeals”, the official said.

“The only document guiding judges in this judicial process is the Constitution of Georgia - a document agreed upon by the Georgian people, accepted by all, and embodying the fundamental principles of the civilised world on which Western states are founded. Consequently, this trial has been turned into an arena for political assessments, but a courtroom is not the place for such assessments. Over the years, they could have pursued their objectives through other channels, whether by entering Parliament, appearing in the media, or using other appropriate platforms. However, their primary intention was to orchestrate revolutionary scenarios”, she concluded.