Georgian Parliamentary Majority Leader: Opposition Is an “Agent Network Disguised as Political Parties”

Georgia’s parliamentary majority leader and chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream faction, Irakli Kirtskhalia, has accused opposition groups of operating as a single “agent network,” arguing that their apparent political divisions are designed to create the impression that they represent separate political forces.

Speaking on Rustavi 2, Kirtskhalia claimed that opposition parties ultimately belong to the same political network and alleged that they are influenced and supported by external actors.

“This is an agent network that has simply called itself a political party. We should not forget how much dust they have thrown in people’s eyes and how many lies they have told,” Kirtskhalia said.

He claimed that public confrontations between different opposition groups were part of what he described as an attempt to convince voters that they represented genuinely distinct political forces.

“One of the dirtiest scenarios used to mislead the public has been to present themselves under different colours and numbers and stage their talentless, nauseating attacks on one another showing the public who can insult whom more aggressively simply to create at least some impression that these are different parties,” he said.

Kirtskhalia alleged that the opposition formed part of a broader network operating within Georgia’s political system and receiving support through various external channels.

“This is all part of the same scenario it is an agent network. In an independent and sovereign country, you have a network of agents that pollutes the political landscape while calling themselves politicians,” he said.

He further alleged that such groups continued to have access to funding through different channels and claimed that communication between them and their foreign supporters was visible in publicly available information.

Kirtskhalia also linked a series of legislative initiatives adopted by Georgian Dream to what he described as efforts to protect the country from external interference.

“Every step we have taken including the legislative packages we adopted and the laws we developed, such as legislation concerning LGBT issues and the protection of our children’s future, the transparency law, followed by FARA in a one-to-one form, amendments to the Election Code and others was aimed at protecting our small country from these attacks,” Kirtskhalia said.