EP resolution has no value – ruling party Sec-Gen Kaladze

The recently adopted European Parliament resolution, which reads “excessive influence” of Bidzina Ivanishvili, the founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party and the former prime minister and calls for the reduction of his power, “has no value”, the party Secretary General Kakha Kaladze said on Wednesday. 

“It is not the first time that a similar resolution is adopted. It is very unfortunate that a number of wrong notes are included in the resolution, and it can be directly said that this resolution has no value, not even in terms of content, because in Georgia, the population of our country knows very well who Ivanishvili is what has he done for the country”, Kaladze said. 

Along with Ivanishvili’s case, the newly approved annual report on the fulfilment of the Association Agreement between Georgia and the European Union, called on Georgian authorities to stop “politically motivated criminal cases” and  reconsider current cases brought against opposition media, their owners or family members. 

It also encouraged the domestic authorities to allow the transfer of imprisoned former president Mikheil Saakashvili abroad for treatment “on humanitarian grounds’ ‘.