Shalva Papuashvili, Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, on Thursday accused foreign states of ignoring their own “greater” domestic issues while criticizing Georgia.
In a social media post, Papuashvili used the proverb, “you can’t see the dirt in your own eyes and look for fur in someone else’s,” to highlight what he sees as the tendency of countries like France, Germany, and the United States to focus on external political conflicts rather than addressing similar challenges within their own systems.
Papuashvili said, “They are going to arrest the leader of the second-largest political force in France, disband the second-largest party in Germany, and in the United States, they threatened the opposition presidential candidate with 561 years in prison (and this is not a joke).
Only being elected president prevented this from happening. The prosecutor investigating the case has since announced his resignation”.
