Former Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia accuses the ruling team of "dirty propaganda" and "gossip" in the run-up to the elections.
He responds to the incumbent Prime Minister, Irakli Gharibashvili, who said that Gakharia and his teammate, Alexander Khojevanishvili, may have been behind the scandalous recordings of the SSG.
Gakharia denies Gharibashvili's allegations and says he did not order illegal recordings. At the same time, the former prime minister does not rule out that the Georgian Dream may have a recording of his conversations.
"I did not give such an assignment. The names of the people who are mentioned so often, my colleagues, my comrades, did not do even half of what these people did.
The fact that officials are being organized, starting with the Prime Minister, continuing with the mayor and the party chairman, and making indirect references, is called dirty, negative propaganda, before the elections. The only thing they can do is gossip and threaten, but no one is afraid of this threat.
Maybe I am also recorded somewhere, but let them show it. I am very interested in what they show," said Giorgi Gakharia.