Opposition accuses Gov’t of “sabotaging” Georgia’s EU path through President’s impeachment

Georgian opposition groups have accused the country’s Government of “sabotaging” Tbilisi’s EU integration following the ruling by the Constitutional Court on Monday, which approved the Georgian Dream party’s allegations that President Salome Zourabichvili had violated the Constitution through her European trip in August and September without the Government’s authorization. 

 

The domestic opposition also said the ruling had “proved” the Constitutional Court was “under the GD influence”. 

 

“The only solution is consolidation and an uncompromising fight against the Putinist regime”, Levan Khabeishvili, the chair of the United National Movement opposition said. 

 

Levan Bezhashvili, the chair of the party’s political council, claimed the ruling “proves once again that the Constitutional Court as an independent body no longer exists”, and added the party would boycott the impeachment vote scheduled this week. 

 

The Lelo opposition party also said the court had become a “blind executor of the will of Georgian Dream”, and “voiced what the party had ordered”. 

 

The ruling party will need at least 100 votes to dismiss the President, which it does not have and will need the opposition’s support.