Vice Speaker of the Parliament and Chair of the Parliamentary Investigative Commission, Tea Tsulukiani, stated during an interview on the program “Actual Topic with Maka Tsintsadze” that the commission aims to assess the governance of the United National Movement during the period from the Rose Revolution in 2003 until October 1, 2012, when Georgian Dream came to power.
According to Tsulukiani, the commission’s final conclusions will include evaluations as well as recommendations.
“These recommendations may pertain to specific cases but could also be broader and more general in nature. One key point, which has already been clearly stated from the beginning by Georgian Dream’s parliamentary majority and government, is that those political officials who governed during that time and committed crimes such as home invasions and killings by state representatives, property seizures, business racketeering, violations of media freedom, invasions of privacy—including filming people in their bedrooms to later blackmail them—repression of dissent, threats, abandoning civilians during the August 2008 war, territorial losses, degrading the Georgian army and turning its soldiers into victims under unprofessional leadership, and effectively aiding Russian interests, should never be allowed to return to power,” she said.
The Vice-Speaker emphasized that such individuals should be permanently banned from participating in political processes, regardless of which party they belong to or might establish in the future.
“Many normal states have gone through this process. Germany is perhaps the most well-known example, but other countries too have taken decades to heal their wounds and have declared that such individuals must never again be candidates for government,” Tsulukiani added. “This is precisely the purpose of our commission’s work.”
She also highlighted the importance of transparency in the commission’s operations.
“It was a political decision by the Georgian Dream team that this commission be created and that its work be public and transparent, rather than confined to courtroom proceedings or private investigative rooms with only lawyers present. This is a public process—and likely a painful one—for those political figures who committed these acts,” Tsulukiani said.
