Ruling party members in regional city assemblies quit to “inform the public”

The deputy chairmen of Akhaltsikhe and Lagodekhi city assemblies from the Georgian Dream (GD) ruling party faction, as well as the deputy chairmen in Chiatura and Terjola city councils, quit the party on Monday to join the three former MPs of the GD to tell the public “the truth.”

 

MP Dimitri Khundadze, who has recently  left the Georgian Dream party along with his two colleagues, thanked the deputies in the city assemblies for their “service to the country.”

 

“While part of the opposition sacrifices the country for their own ambition,  the members of Dream leave their positions to help the country,” Khundadze suggested.

 

Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili contradicted the opposition’s views and stated that “neither the former MPs, nor those who currently left the party, are engaged with anti-Western propaganda. It’s ridiculous.”

 

The three MPs, Khundadze, Mikheil Kavelashvili and Sozar Subari, had suggested that “great forces wished to drag Georgia into war.”

 

Later, Kavelashvili accused the US Ambassador  Kelly Degnan of degrading the US reputation in Georgia through “not-distancing herself” from the parties and individuals wishing Georgia’s involvement in the war.