Journalist Kvesitadze claims crowds may take revenge on GD officials for Saakashvili

Journalist in the opposition-minded Mtavari TV channel, Eka Kvesitadze, says that developments around former president Mikheil Saakashvili, who was arrested in Tbilisi in early October, may push crowds to an ‘uncontrolled process.’

Kvesitadze, who is wife of the United National Movement former law enforcement official Shota Utiashvili, says that angry crowds ‘may take revenge’ on the ruling Georgian Dream officials, like PM Irakli Garibashvili and head of the ruling Georgian Dream party, Irakli Kobakhidze. 

“Unlike Ivanishvili (founder of the ruling party Bidzina Ivanishvili), neither Garibashvili nor Kobakhidze live in a fortress…Ivanishvili is provoking the Georgian public and the process is expected to lead to uncontrolled situation,” Kvesitadze said. 

She claimed that Saakashvili’s transfer to a prison hospital on Monday to prevent complications in his health on the 39th day of hunger strike, was a ‘provocation’ by Ivanishvili. 

Kvesitadze noted that if the opposition made a mistake at that moment, the government would have used riot police against them and would disperse the rally.