UNM opposition refuses to listen to “Russian” PM’s speech, claims their leader attacked

The MPs from the  United National Movement opposition party on Friday quit the session where prime minister Irakli Garibashvili was presenting his office’s annual report, saying they did not want to listen to the “Russian PM” and would drive to the Kaspi municipality, in central Georgia, where they claimed the party leader Levan Khabeishvili had been attacked by the domestic activists of the ruling party. 

 

The UNM claimed Khabeishvili had plans to meet with the local population, when he was attacked, with several individuals involved in the brawl. 

 

After presenting the report, the PM slammed the domestic “radial wing” of the opposition for “deliberately damaging” national interests while in office and then in the opposition, as well as for lobbying against the country’s obtaining the European Union membership candidate status later this year. 

 

Garibashvili also claimed it was the UNM which while in office between 2004-2012 had “handed the country’s territories to Russia” in the 2008 conflict between the states.