Ombudswoman to GD MP: how do you dare to speak over the country’s EU choice on behalf of Georgians?

Georgian Public Advocate Nino Lomjaria has slammed the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party MP Dimitri Khundadze for his recent statement that  “if Georgia receives the EU candidate status with unfair obligations, the country should reject it.”

“What? How do you dare ?! The majority of the population of Georgia and the Constitution have already decided on the European choice. Who gave you the right to say this on behalf of this country?,” Lomjaria said on social media on Friday.

Khundadze said earlier today that If Georgia received the EU candidate status “with the same unjust obligations as the unjust accusations were reflected in the recent European Parliament resolution”, then the country “should give a fair refusal in return.”

The EP resolution on Thursday on Georgia’s media freedom and security of journalists expressed various concerns over the country’s media environment, calling for the transfer of the country’s third President Mikheil Saakashvili for treatment abroad and imposing sanctions on the founder of the ruling party Bidzina Ivanishvili.