Strategy Agmashenebeli opposition launches 100-hour tour “together towards Europe”

The opposition Strategy Agmashenebeli party launched a 100-hour tour entitled  “Together towards Europe” throughout Georgia on Monday.

 The tour kicked off  in Tbilisi, from the Republic Square ( former Rose Revolution Square) with participants scheduled to visit all regions of the country within a week.

The party chair Giorgi Vashadze suggested that the representatives of the ruling Georgian Dream party and the government “Irakli Garibashvili, Irakli Kobakhidze and Dimitri Khundadze do not really deserve the status of the EU candidate. However, the Georgian people deserve it.”

“The opposition will do everything to prevent the country from losing this historic chance.

“We will meet people. We will say once again how important it is to receive the status of the EU candidate. This process is important both for Georgia, to explain to the Georgian people the importance of the process, as well as for our European colleagues to see how much support the country’s European integration has in Georgia. We should bring Europe to Georgia as soon as possible. We need Europe for Georgia, and Georgia should regain its deserved  place in the European family,” Vashadze said.

Georgia applied for EU membership on March 3 of this year, along with Ukraine and Moldova.

The trio are now expecting the bloc’s decision on EU candidate status in the coming days.

The recent critical resolution of the European Parliament over media freedom and security of journalists in Georgia has sparked negative comments in the ruling party, particularly the resolution’s call to impose sanctions on the ruling party founder Bidzina Ivanishvili.

Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili has accused the ruling party and the state authorities of “being inactive” and making “irrelevant comments” in the “historic moment for Georgia.”