Levan Machavariani: For 14 years, we have been hearing about “dictatorship,” “Russia,” and similar absurdities and nonsense - It is exhausting to have such an agent-run opposition - The political landscape must be cleansed of agent-run parties

“For 14 years, we have been hearing the same things: ‘dictatorship,’ ‘Russia,’ and similar absurdities and nonsense. Our society is truly fed up with all this. Of course, it is exhausting to have such an agent-run opposition in politics,” Georgian Dream MP Levan Machavariani told journalists.

According to Machavariani, it is time to cleanse the political landscape of agent-run parties. He said this was one of the reasons why Georgian Dream had filed a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court seeking to ban several political parties.

“Of course, the crimes committed by the ‘collective United National Movement’ while in power, as well as the ongoing process of sabotage they have engaged in since moving into opposition, must receive a legal assessment. Politically, they have already been judged by the Georgian people – they have lost 10 elections by a considerable margin. However, we are obliged to ensure that all of this also receives a legal assessment. That is precisely why we appealed to the Constitutional Court.

“We hope that our lawsuit will be upheld. That is our wish, but the decision must be made by the Constitutional Court. We believe that our lawsuit is sufficiently supported by facts and evidence. This week, the public will have an opportunity to hear, in a question-and-answer format, what arguments the agent-run opposition can present. I believe they simply have no arguments with which to counter our lawsuit.

“The question-and-answer format will reveal just how helpless this agent-run opposition is. For 14 years, we have been hearing the same things: ‘dictatorship,’ ‘Russia,’ and similar absurdities and nonsense. Our society is truly fed up with all this. Of course, it is exhausting to have such an agent-run opposition in politics.

“One of the reasons we filed the constitutional lawsuit is that it is time to cleanse the political landscape of agent-run parties. After that, young people with a state-oriented vision will have greater motivation to enter politics,” Machavariani said.

For the record, hearings on the lawsuit seeking to ban opposition parties at the Constitutional Court are scheduled to resume tomorrow.