The News in Brief
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Prepared by Messenger Staff
UNM is working on a legislative initiative on de-oligarchization against Bidzina Ivanishvili, says Khatia Dekanoidze
Khatia Dekanoidze, chairman of the "National Movement" faction, told reporters that the "United National Movement" faction is working on a legislative initiative on de-oligarchization, which will be discussed and directed against Bidzina Ivanishvili.
According to her, by adopting Ukrainian law, the ruling team is trying to evade Ivanishvili's responsibility and use the law as a means of repression against the opponents.
"We never asked for the transfer of the Ukrainian model to Georgia, for us it was always a starting point to prohibit the intervention of Bidzina Ivanishvili as an oligarch in the public, political and economic life of Georgia.
Now what the ruling team is working on is that they want to avoid Bidzina Ivanishvili from any responsibility, they do not consider him an oligarch, unlike the entire international community, and they have decided to choose the best version in order to start new repressions against the opposition.
As for the de-oligarchization law, our faction is working on a legislative initiative that will concern Bidzina Ivanishvili. There are many political issues that must be agreed upon with international partners and the parliamentary opposition," said Dekanoidze.
Opposition is driven with revenge, Archil Talakvadze says
Vice-Speaker Archil Talakvadze responded to the opposition's criticism of drafting Ukraine's analogue law on de-oligarchization into Georgian legislation.
"The opposition demands that a single-word law be adopted and only the name and surname of those who they are motivated by political revenge against being written there, which is connected with the historic defeat in the 2012 elections, the one "National Movement" suffered with,"
According to Archil Talakvadze, based on the Ukrainian version, several people in the ranks of the opposition meet the criteria of an oligarch, one of which according to the Vice Speaker is Davit Kezerashvili, and this is the reason the opposition does not like this model.
"The "National Movement" and the radical opposition received a very serious political trauma in 2012 and are driven by the only thing - political revenge against Ivanishvili, that is where their statements come from. They are deceiving the public - the European Union did not actually say that such a law should be adopted, which directly states only the name and surname of the person who made the most important contribution to the country's democratic reforms.
The European Union has said that a regulation should be drawn up that will set out the criteria for who can be affected by the law on the regulation of oligarchy, and to tell you directly, if we take the model that the "National Movement" liked at the time, there are 4 criteria and the first to be affected by these criteria are the financiers of the radical opposition and the oligarchs in his team, first of all it is Kezerashvili, who meets 3 out of 4 criteria," said Talakvadze.
UNM is working on a legislative initiative on de-oligarchization against Bidzina Ivanishvili, says Khatia Dekanoidze
According to her, by adopting Ukrainian law, the ruling team is trying to evade Ivanishvili's responsibility and use the law as a means of repression against the opponents.
"We never asked for the transfer of the Ukrainian model to Georgia, for us it was always a starting point to prohibit the intervention of Bidzina Ivanishvili as an oligarch in the public, political and economic life of Georgia.
Now what the ruling team is working on is that they want to avoid Bidzina Ivanishvili from any responsibility, they do not consider him an oligarch, unlike the entire international community, and they have decided to choose the best version in order to start new repressions against the opposition.
As for the de-oligarchization law, our faction is working on a legislative initiative that will concern Bidzina Ivanishvili. There are many political issues that must be agreed upon with international partners and the parliamentary opposition," said Dekanoidze.
Opposition is driven with revenge, Archil Talakvadze says
"The opposition demands that a single-word law be adopted and only the name and surname of those who they are motivated by political revenge against being written there, which is connected with the historic defeat in the 2012 elections, the one "National Movement" suffered with,"
According to Archil Talakvadze, based on the Ukrainian version, several people in the ranks of the opposition meet the criteria of an oligarch, one of which according to the Vice Speaker is Davit Kezerashvili, and this is the reason the opposition does not like this model.
"The "National Movement" and the radical opposition received a very serious political trauma in 2012 and are driven by the only thing - political revenge against Ivanishvili, that is where their statements come from. They are deceiving the public - the European Union did not actually say that such a law should be adopted, which directly states only the name and surname of the person who made the most important contribution to the country's democratic reforms.
The European Union has said that a regulation should be drawn up that will set out the criteria for who can be affected by the law on the regulation of oligarchy, and to tell you directly, if we take the model that the "National Movement" liked at the time, there are 4 criteria and the first to be affected by these criteria are the financiers of the radical opposition and the oligarchs in his team, first of all it is Kezerashvili, who meets 3 out of 4 criteria," said Talakvadze.