PM claims to “review cooperation” with those opposing Georgian government’s “anti-LGBT propaganda” stance

Georgian prime minister Irakli Garibashvili on Tuesday said the country’s current authorities would “review cooperation” with unidentified forces, who he said had criticized his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Budapest earlier this month and his office’s “anti-LGBT propaganda” stance. 

 

In his press comments on Victory day, the PM claimed 90 percent of the country’s population shared “Christian values”, and his office was protecting the rights of both the majority and the minority. 

 

However, he slammed an “aggressive LGBT propaganda” and pointed to unidentified foreign countries, where he said the younger generation had been “poisoned” with the propaganda. 

 

In his remarks on the day commemorating the defeat of the Nazy Germany in WWII by allied forces in 1945, the PM praised the war veterans as “heroes” and wished Ukraine “peace , reintegration of its territories and ending the ongoing destructive war soon”. 

 

The PM once again described the United National Movement opposition party as “neo-fascists” and claimed “in coordination with Ukrainian officials like David Arakhamia”, the party was trying to stage a coup and retake office, in a bid to “drag Georgia” in the conflict.