Ruling Party MP Kirtskhalia: Akatsuki ‘poisoned with Camite’ now recalling alleged chemical attack live on air after one year

The leader of Georgia’s parliamentary majority, Irakli Kirtskhalia, on Saturday published a post on social media commenting on events that have unfolded in the country in recent years.

Kirtskhalia listed what he called “three wonders” from the past several years in Georgia: former President Mikheil Saakashvili “fully recovering from dementia”, claims that “women in expensive fur coats falsified 400,000 votes” at polling stations and an Akatsuki (a term the ruling party now uses pejoratively to describe opposition figures and Western critics) who was reportedly “poisoned with the chemical agent Camite” now recounting the events live on air a year later.

“The only victim left was the parrot, which lost its feathers,” Kirtskhalia wrote, dismissing allegations of a chemical attack as baseless and ridiculing those who had raised them.

The remarks come amid a recently published BBC report alleging that Georgian authorities had used a World War I–era chemical agent during the 2024 anti-government protests.