Five MPs leave 'Georgian Dream' and join 'People's Power'
By Liza Mchedlidze
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Five more MPs have announced leaving the "Georgian Dream" and joining the "People's Power" party which was founded by four of the deputies who left the ruling party.
In result, "People's Power" will be represented by 9 deputies in the Parliament of Georgia.
Despite leaving the "Georgian Dream", Mikeladze, Sepashvili, Kacharava, Japaridze and Beraia will remain in the parliamentary majority, similarly to the four of the founders of the party.
In addition to the deputies, several experts and several presenters of "Pos TV" television company joined the movement.
"The public movement "People's power" was founded by several parliamentarians, however, the composition of the movement soon expanded and at the first stage members of the Parliament from different districts joined it. Today we would like to present to society an even more expanded composition of the movement. The parliamentary composition of the movement is expanding.
In particular, 5 parliamentarians will be added to our parliamentary team - Eka Sepashvili, Viktor Japaridze, Davit Kacharava, Dachi Beraia and Zaal Mikeladze. In total, our movement will be represented in the Parliament of Georgia by 9 members, which means that we will have the third largest political group in the legislative body. In addition, experts joined the movement - Tamta Megrelishvili, Zurab Kadagidze, Davit Kartvelishvili, Tamar Chiburdanidze, Nukri Shoshiashvili, Otar Chulukhadze, Nika Kobuladze and Ioane Shaishmelashvili," said Subar.
Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Gharibashvili, was asked by a journalist regarding these deputies who left the party.
"We are separated, they themselves separated themselves, that says it all, we have differences regarding their positions and that is why we are separated," he said.
According to the Prime Minister, every person has full right to make any decision that he thinks is right.
"This is how we understand democracy. We are a democratic society, we should promote pluralism as much as possible, the development of different ideas, ideologies, and in the end, people should decide which ideology is acceptable. I've said it before and I'll say it again - we've had internal discussions about these issues and we've told them that we don't agree with their positions. We have made it clear. We told them that it was unacceptable for them to express these positions in such a way," Gharibashvili noted.
As the Prime Minister said Georgia is a small country with many challenges, some of the territories are occupied, "we need more strong partners and allies".
"We need very good, strong connections with everyone, especially with our main partners - the United States of America and representatives of the European Union", Gharibashvili said.
Opposition party "Lelo" MP Davit Usupashvili was also asked regarding this matter by journalists:
"There is no apostate 9, there is an ascended 9, to whom the Supreme has granted the supreme privilege to voice their and other leaders' opinions about the world, directly and without change."
"Some of the MPs who formally remained in the "Dream" are terribly dissatisfied, because they themselves are tired of speaking in a milder manner in order not to offend foreign countries something and should speak differently, but I know many people in the majority of "Dreams" who are no less worried about all this than others. Why did Ivanishvili decide to celebrate these 9 and follow these games? Rezo Gabriadze would give us a better answer. Those who are interested in the nuances of Georgian politics should listen to these 9, these are the people who voice the true thoughts of the "Georgian Dream" leaders.
