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Monday, October 24, 2022
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'Anti-corruption movement' to work with international partners to punish Irakli Kobakhidze and Tea Tsulukiani for 'electoral fraud'
According to Irakli Pavlenishvili, a member of the "Anti-corruption Movement", they will work with international partners to include the members of the ruling team - Irakli Kobakhidze and Tea Tsulukiani - in the list of those sanctioned due to election fraud.
As he said while talking to journalists, the object of international sanctions should be all those who falsified the elections.
"There is a person in the Ministry of Culture who took an important part in the falsification of the 2020 parliamentary elections and 2021 municipal elections. Yesterday, a new detail became known to the public - the falsifier himself, who had a confrontation with other falsifiers, made public the evidence we have been talking about in recent years. We observed and saw how the will of the Georgian people was forged.
As for Tea Tsulukiani, who moved from the Ministry of Justice to the Ministry of Culture, the personal information of Georgian citizens was known to the "Georgian Dream" party, "Georgian Dream" and State Security Service. The responsibility of the Ministry of Justice is clear, it is the Ministry of Justice that has access to our personal data. They were responsible for protecting personal data, but they did not protect it, handed it over to the ruling party, and sacrificed it. Therefore, the question of his responsibility should arise. We intend to contact the data protection inspector to start an investigation regarding Thea Tsulukian.
Also, we are working with international partners on the issue of sanctions, where one of the directions is to undermine Georgian democracy. Excavating the main root of what the ruler can do is falsifying elections, and restricting the expression of the nation's free will, therefore Irakli Kobakhidze, Tea Tsulukiani, and the forgers should be objects of international sanctions, we will share the evidence with our partners. These forgers should be punished", said Pavlenishvili.
'We are trying to stand by Ukraine, such a decision is incomprehensible' says Bregadze on Ukraine's sanctions on Ivanishvili
Minister of Justice Rati Bregadze said that Ukraine's sanctions on Bidzina Ivanishvili's family and entourage "such type of decisions are completely incomprehensible and are not favorable towards Georgia".
According to Bregadze, the representatives of the National Movement hold high positions in Ukraine, and "it is clear that the Ukrainian government probably takes their advice into account".
"Such decisions towards Georgian citizens are completely incomprehensible, and we have seen this before when one of the high-ranking officials directly called for Georgia's involvement in the war, and Georgia did not understand all of this, and on the contrary, we try to maintain peace as much as possible, protect our national interests, stand by the Ukrainian people. And when similar decisions are made in Ukraine, it doesn't matter who makes them, it's completely incomprehensible to us, and we think it's not good for Georgia, when Georgian citizens are subjected to similar sanctions without any explanation, and this is completely A trend decision.
I, in this case, do not expect anything [Ivanishvili's sanction], I state my position that similar types of decisions against Georgian citizens, which are not accompanied by any justification, are uniquely tendentious.
We have repeatedly talked about the fact that the representatives of the United National Movement hold high positions in Ukraine, this is also completely incomprehensible to us, and it is clear that the Ukrainian authorities probably take into account their advice, which has nothing to do with the law, and when someone makes a similar decision, they should be kind and agree with it. give reasons. Therefore, it will not be appropriate to make more comments on such frivolous decisions," said Bregadze.
'Anti-corruption movement' to work with international partners to punish Irakli Kobakhidze and Tea Tsulukiani for 'electoral fraud'
As he said while talking to journalists, the object of international sanctions should be all those who falsified the elections.
"There is a person in the Ministry of Culture who took an important part in the falsification of the 2020 parliamentary elections and 2021 municipal elections. Yesterday, a new detail became known to the public - the falsifier himself, who had a confrontation with other falsifiers, made public the evidence we have been talking about in recent years. We observed and saw how the will of the Georgian people was forged.
As for Tea Tsulukiani, who moved from the Ministry of Justice to the Ministry of Culture, the personal information of Georgian citizens was known to the "Georgian Dream" party, "Georgian Dream" and State Security Service. The responsibility of the Ministry of Justice is clear, it is the Ministry of Justice that has access to our personal data. They were responsible for protecting personal data, but they did not protect it, handed it over to the ruling party, and sacrificed it. Therefore, the question of his responsibility should arise. We intend to contact the data protection inspector to start an investigation regarding Thea Tsulukian.
Also, we are working with international partners on the issue of sanctions, where one of the directions is to undermine Georgian democracy. Excavating the main root of what the ruler can do is falsifying elections, and restricting the expression of the nation's free will, therefore Irakli Kobakhidze, Tea Tsulukiani, and the forgers should be objects of international sanctions, we will share the evidence with our partners. These forgers should be punished", said Pavlenishvili.
'We are trying to stand by Ukraine, such a decision is incomprehensible' says Bregadze on Ukraine's sanctions on Ivanishvili
According to Bregadze, the representatives of the National Movement hold high positions in Ukraine, and "it is clear that the Ukrainian government probably takes their advice into account".
"Such decisions towards Georgian citizens are completely incomprehensible, and we have seen this before when one of the high-ranking officials directly called for Georgia's involvement in the war, and Georgia did not understand all of this, and on the contrary, we try to maintain peace as much as possible, protect our national interests, stand by the Ukrainian people. And when similar decisions are made in Ukraine, it doesn't matter who makes them, it's completely incomprehensible to us, and we think it's not good for Georgia, when Georgian citizens are subjected to similar sanctions without any explanation, and this is completely A trend decision.
I, in this case, do not expect anything [Ivanishvili's sanction], I state my position that similar types of decisions against Georgian citizens, which are not accompanied by any justification, are uniquely tendentious.
We have repeatedly talked about the fact that the representatives of the United National Movement hold high positions in Ukraine, this is also completely incomprehensible to us, and it is clear that the Ukrainian authorities probably take into account their advice, which has nothing to do with the law, and when someone makes a similar decision, they should be kind and agree with it. give reasons. Therefore, it will not be appropriate to make more comments on such frivolous decisions," said Bregadze.