Guram Macharashvili left the Georgian Dream ruling party on Thursday in a bid to join three former MPs of the GD to “tell the public the truth”.
Former GD MPs, Sozar Subari, Dimitri Khundadze and Mikheil Kavelashvili left the party last month and have made several accusations towards the EU and the US since then, accusing “great forces” of making attempts to “drag Georgia into Russia’s war in Ukraine”.
Macharashvili suggested that the release of the letter of the founder of the GD, former PM, Bidzina Ivanishvili on Wednesday, pushed him to make the decision.
“Difficult political processes are taking place in the world. Georgia cannot be an exception. There are challenges in the country, especially after Bidzina Ivanishvili’s letter was published and the society had an adequate response.
“My current position, the membership of the Georgian Dream”faction, can be an obstacle to providing the necessary information to the public”, Macharashvili said.
The opposition says that the former MPs “are voicing the pro-Russian sentiments of oligarch Ivanishvili, damaging the country’s pro-Western course”.
Kavelashvili suggested on Wednesday that the MPs had plans to form a public movement.