Vice PM Mdinaradze slams opposition for pursuing ‘external orders’

Georgia’s Vice Prime Minister Mamuka Mdinaradze has accused opposition parties of lacking ideological unity and being driven primarily by a desire to seize power and carry out what he described as “external orders”.

Speaking at a briefing on Monday, Mdinaradze said divisions within the opposition were unsurprising because, in his view, the parties did not share any genuine common political platform.

“The only issue on which they have ideological unity is something they cannot say publicly,” he said. “That is coming to power, seizing authority and carrying out external instructions.”

Mdinaradze argued that no politician would openly admit to such motives and claimed that, beyond this alleged shared objective, opposition groups had no unifying political idea capable of bringing them together publicly.

He further noted internal disputes and confrontation among opposition parties were therefore “a natural phenomenon” that neither the government nor the opposition itself could prevent.