The leader of "Strategy Agmashenebeli" Salome Zurabishvili calls once again to pardon Mikheil Saakashvili and Nika Gvaramia. At a special briefing, Vashadze evaluated the resolution adopted by ALDE on Saturday and said that in order to receive the status of a candidate for the European Union, it is necessary to take effective steps so that the Europeans can see it:
"We have every chance to get candidate status, but concrete steps need to be taken for this. The most important thing is to stop the attack on the Western partners and direct appeal to the president - as the first step - to pardon Nika Gvaramia and Mikheil Saakashvili. Therefore, I appeal to the president of Georgia, there is no time for expert assessments, it is time for concrete and effective steps to be taken by the President's institution. The pardon mechanism, this is how our European partners see it, you have to ease this difficult situation and really move towards the European Union. So it's your turn, Mrs. Salome, to pardon these two people so that Concrete steps should be taken towards the path of integration into the European Union." Vashadze said.