This is a pre-election campaign and the election fraud that is taking place today - Nika Gvaramia on repression of the critical

"This is a pre-election campaign and the election fraud that is taking place today." said Nika Gvaramia, the CEO of the Mtavari Channel, on the show "Nighttime Mtavari", when the tax service entered the channel and advertised the crackdown on journalists. 

As Nika Gvaramia says, Irakli Kobakhidze's statement that black money is circulating in critical televisions is complete nonsense.

"Revenue of Rustavi 2 is as much as ours and their output is 2 times our own. Imedi TV, because the whole government machine works on it, has about 3 times more revenue than us, but has output 6 times larger than us.[Kobakhidze] did not ask the representatives of these TV stations, how much and which black money is circulating there, how much money the investor is investing and how we should control it? How can we control the source of the source? It is complete nonsense, by entering us, how can they find out if it's black money, white or green," said Nika Gvaramia

According to him, critical media are being attacked from all sides, journalists are being threatened, which is a disgraceful face of the "Georgian Dream".

"These [journalists] are small children for the most part, they are more courageous than me, but the self-censorship that is formed, and they do not admit it themselves, but somewhere the fear crystallizes, every minute they subconsciously think that they shouldn't ask this question now, shouldn't go near this person, censorship Itself does not matter, on the contrary, it provokes backlash, but self-censorship is a monster that destroys the media and any person for whom the activity is an expression of opinion. None of us should stand where we are, but what should we do to protect our own lives and those of our journalists or cameramen, who is our savior? The government is not a helping hand. On the contrary, what can we do? Not ask this government to resign just so we can survive?? It would be a great comedy if it were not so tragic, the main thing is that it is a pre-election campaign and the election fraud that is taking place today. The suppression of the opposition media, which has been going on for a whole month, is to suppress the voice of the opposition, to create a comfort zone for the "dream". They have chosen the effigy of the new enemy, this is the media, how everyone hates them, even the church supports this and demands exactly the same, "Nika Gvaramia said.

According to him, he is surprised by the passivity of both political forces and international organizations in this process.