Three former MPs of the ruling party accuse US of “anti-Georgia, anti-governmental” moves

Three former MPs of the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party, Sozar Subari, Dimitri Khundadze and Mikheil Kavelashvili, who left the party last month with the single motivation – “to tell the public the truth” – accused the US of undertaking an “anti-Georgia and an anti-governeral” strategy.

 

In a letter released on Monday the MPs now openly accused US Ambassador Kelly Degnan of “supporting radical forces in Georgia, encouraging the revolution and interference in the judiciary”, noting that the Ambassador “would not have done that alone.”

 

“We can draw the following solid conclusions from your [Kelly Degnan’s] statements and silence: you [Degnan] not only do not distance yourself from the war-oriented rhetoric, but you support and incite it yourself. You sympathise with Bakuriani’s revolutionary assembly [opposition’s plans]  and share the demand for the resignation of the government and the formation of a technical government. You confirm the interference in the Georgian judiciary, and moreover, you approve the move. You met with Bidzina Ivanishvili [the ruling party founder] after February 24 and it is not difficult to guess what message you would have to convey to him.

 

“ The fact that your protection was decided at the level of the spokesperson of the US State Department gives us one additional piece of information that everything you do are not your personal decisions, but it is the US’s current strategy towards Georgia,” said the letter.

 

Ambassador Degnan has several times dismissed allegations over the US’ attempts to drag Georgia into Russia’s war in Ukraine.

 

She also said that the Embassy had made no pressure on a judge Lasha Chkhikvadze for his verdict in the case of the opposition-minded Mtavari channel head Nika Gvaramia.

 

The opposition say that the trio “just voice” the “anti-Western messages” of the current state authorities and its founder, billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili.