We are calling on the 'Dream' to take legal action against breach of judicial independence

"People's Power" publishes another anti-American statement and this time criticizes the American Ambassador, Kelly Degnan. According to them, the Ambassador avoided some questions, failed to present the evidence on the basis of which the judges were established, and also failed to say what was there Russian in the bill initiated by them. MP's claim that the Americans work every day to recruit their own agents in the court, which poses a serious threat to Georgia's sovereignty.

"People's Power", which recently initiated the Russian law in the parliament, this time calls on "Georgian Dream" to take effective legal measures "against the violation of the independence of the court".

"We see that the Americans are working every day to recruit their own agents in the court, which poses a serious threat to the sovereignty of Georgia. At the current rate, they have already recruited twenty agents in the judicial system. To influence other judges, they actively use such privileges as offering visits to America, trainings and participation in other events, offering various paid activities, etc. We call on "Georgian Dream" to take effective legal measures, which will be directed against the violation of the independence of the court. The aforementioned legal measures should also allow us to identify foreign agents in the judicial system and implement specific measures of legal response to them. We believe that it is our state task to ensure that no foreign agent remains in the judicial system, for which the state must use all legitimate means. Being an agent is a special, one of the most dangerous manifestation of betrayal of one's country, and thus, the government's loyal attitude towards this event cannot have any justification. If Georgia fails to preserve the independence of the judiciary, it will completely lose its sovereignty and return to the worst past of 2004-12, when the judicial system was one of the main repressive tools of the bloody agentocracy," the statement reads.

Kelly Degnan and the State Department explained that they have enough evidence that sanctioned individuals are involved in corrupt activities, hindering the development of an independent judicial system.