Ex-pres. Saakashvili calls Garibashvili “Russian PM”, “reveals” his “four lies”

Georgia’s currently imprisoned former president Mikheil Saakashvili on Thursday posted from the Vivamedi Tbilisi clinic, where he has been receiving treatment since May 2022, in which he called the Georgian prime minister Irakli Garibashvili the “Russian PM” and accused him of telling “four lies” around him. 

 

In response to Garibashvili’s claims that Saakashvili was in September 2021  sent to Georgia by Ukrainian authorities to stage a coup and later “drag” Georgia into Russia-Ukraine war, Saakashvili said “even the US intelligence” had no information on the launch of hostilities that time he arrived in Georgia. 

 

Saakashvili also claimed Garibashvili would be unable to name a “single Ukrainian official” who said there would be a second front in Georgia if Saakashvili were in office. 

 

“Garibashvili also claimed Ukraine had blocked Georgia’s EU candidacy last year. Everyone in the world knows that there would be no mention of the issue of Georgia if it were not for the heroic struggle of the Ukrainian people”, Saakashvili said. 

 

In the end, the former president said he did not need not anyone’s encouragement to return to Georgia after eight years abroad, adding “I had quite publicly declared for a long time that I would come for municipal elections”.