Ruling party head: everyone labeling Ivanishvili as oligarch a “spy” of “War Party”

Everyone, who describes the founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party, Bidzina Ivanishvili, as an oligarch, “is a spy of the War Party”, the head of the GD Irakli Kobakhidze said on Wednesday in response to recent comments of MEP Anna Fotyga to the former prime minister and billionaire. 

 

“When specific people call Ivanishvili an oligarch, demanding sanctions on him, inside and outside the country, are the spy of the War Party [in reference to the United National Movement opposition party]”, Kobakhidze said. 

He reiterated  the UNM’s “single goal” was to spark unrest in the country and drag Georgia into Russia’s war in Ukraine. 

The opposition claims Ivanishvili is a “shadow ruler” of the country.