Georgian Parliament Speaker accuses EU of vendetta against Georgian people following election defeat

Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili said on Friday that the European Union, which presents itself as a peace project and a guardian of democracy, had interfered in the domestic affairs of its candidate country by acting against the ruling Georgian Dream party.

Speaking to journalists, Papuashvili described the past two years as a period of vendetta by the European Union against the Georgian people following its defeat in the elections.

“It does not matter what anyone else says. What matters is what we know. We know that there was interference in the 2024 elections, interference by the European Union and its Ambassador. This is a fact. The European Union, which presents itself as a project for peace and a guardian of democracy, intervened in a candidate country against the Georgian Dream. It was defeated in these elections, and what we have witnessed over the past two years is a vendetta against the Georgian people following that defeat. We see this in everything”, the Speaker said.

“The European Commission spokesperson’s support for the attempted overthrow on October 4 was precisely for this reason. The EU Ambassador’s support for violent actors, and the fact that he has not condemned this violence to this day, stem from the same cause: the European Union is currently taking revenge against Georgia and the Georgian people. They framed the 2024 elections as a referendum, and Brussels was defeated in that referendum”, he concluded.