The withdrawn draft law on “foreign agents”, even without its approval in parliament, “has already brought results, since foreign agents self-lubricated”, declared today, March 14, Irakli Kobakhidze, chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party.
Irakli Kobakhidze clarified that he meant, first of all, members of the Franklin Club, an association that promotes liberal values. According to Mr. Kobakhidze, the club “receives hundreds of thousands of dollars from abroad” and resorts to methods that are “characteristic of liberal fascism.” As an example, the chairman of the party cited the bullying of dissidents, including university lecturers, who did not agree with the actions against the law on foreign agents.
The other day, students staged a public obstruction of those lecturers of Tbilisi State University who supported the draft law “On Transparency in Financing External Influence”.
Withdrawal of the bill by the authorities Irakli Kobakhidze explained a metaphor from Bertolt Brecht’s play “The Caucasian Chalk Circle”, in which the boy finds himself in a chalk circle, two women pull him towards him, but the true mother lets go during the “competition” so as not to harm her son. Moreover, the role of a false mother, according to him, was performed by Mikheil Saakashvili’s party “United National Movement”.
The chairman of the ruling party warned the European Parliament that if the European legislature really adopts today, March 14, a resolution declaring Mr. Saakashvili a “political prisoner” (as previously announced), then this document for the Georgian authorities “will not cost a penny.”
“Saakashvili is a prisoner. He is serving a sentence for the gravest crimes he committed,” Mr. Kobakhidze emphasized and added that the recognition of the former president of Georgia as a “political prisoner” may indicate “problems of corruption in the European Parliament.”
About how the Georgian authorities started searching for the instigators of the recent riots – in the material “Kommersant” “The wrong footprints were found on the hills of Georgia.”