Three former MPs of ruling party, raising accusations towards US, plan to form a public movement

Three former MPs of the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party, Dimitri Khundadze, Mikheil Kavelashvili and Subar Subari, who left the party in June to “tell the public the truth” and are attacking the West in their letters, announced plans on Thursday to launch a public movement. 

 

The trio has several times accused the US Ambassador to Georgia Kelly Degnan of interfering in Georgia’s internal issues and supporting the domestic forces “who wish to drag Georgia into Russia’s war in Ukraine”. 

 

The MPs also suggested that Degnan met the founder of the GD, billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili on March 21 of this year “to exert pressure on him to draw Georgia into the war”. 

 

Ivanishvili confirmed the meeting on Thursday, without making any comments on the content of the “three-hour-discussion”. 

 

Degnan has several times dismissed the allegations over the US’ attempts to drag Georgia into the war, stressing that the wording “was out of the FSB book”. 

 

The opposition said that the trio is voicing Ivanishvili “who is an informal ruler of the country with pro-Russian goals”.