GD: MP Mdinaradze never stated that if Saakashvili won’t die, he’ll appear in funny situation

The ruling Georgian Dream (GD) MP, Mamuka Mdinaradze, has never stated that if Saakashvili will not die (due to hunger strike), he will appear in a funny situation, the Communication Department of the GD has stated. 

 

“The opposition-minded TV Pirveli lies and uses a phrase as a headline Mdinaradze has never stated. In particular – Mdinaradze has never stated that if Saakashvili will not die, he will appear in a funny situation,” says the ruling party communication department. 

 

“Mdinaradze has never used the phrase ‘if he will not die’ neither in the particular, nor in any other interviews.” The GD Communication Department maintains that in the interview Mdinaradze says that Saakashvili is manipulating with his hunger strike and calls on him to allow the country’s Ministry of Justice to publicize personal data. 

 

Mikheil Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, says he returned to Georgia after eight years in political exile to remove the GD from power. 

 

He was convicted in Georgia in absentia back in 2018 for abuse of authority and was sentenced to six years in prison.

 

Saakashvili has also been charged with four other offences. 

 

He was detained in Tbilisi a day before Georgian municipal elections, which were held on October 2, and has been on hunger strike since then. 

 

He has been offered many times to receive treatment in a prison hospital. However, he declines the offer by the government and demands transportation to a civil clinic. 

 

Georgian PM Irakli Garibashvili says that Saakashvili is ‘staging a show’ with his hunger strike, ‘is blackmailing’ his United National Movement party members and has plans to cause destabilisation if he is brought to a private clinic. 

 

Saakashvili said yesterday that if he is released from prison, ‘snap parliamentary elections will be held in a maximum of ten days which will end by the removal of the GD from power.’