Gharibashvili releases a statement regarding the return of Mikheil Saakashvili

Irakli Gharibashvili releases another statement regarding the arrival of Mikheil Saakashvili and shares his views on why and for what reason the third president arrived in the country.

We offer Gharibashvili's statement unchanged:

Friends. Probably, many of our compatriots think about what motivated Mikheil Saakashvili when he planned his adventurous arrival in Georgia.

The version may be different. Some feel that the thirst for power, selfishness, and jealousy of the other leaders of the United National Movement and the want for attention drove him to his own imprisonment.

Some think he came back with the intention of overthrowing the government, of which he was deeply convinced of the success. There is also talk that it was difficult to calculate the consequences of his decision due to his heavy drug addiction.

Mikheil Saakashvili's psychological and mental condition before and after his imprisonment changed radically. The "National Movement" is worried that their leader is in a difficult situation and demands his immediate release from prison. He says that he is neither Merabishvili nor Akhalaia, and he will not tolerate staying in prison for a long time. This situation of Saakashvili was taken seriously by the team, however, they do not know what to do.

As for the above versions of Saakashvili's arrival.

I consider the version that Mikheil Saakashvili deliberately went to prison and planned it in advance absurd. Especially if he wanted to, then he would enter and go to jail not as a thief and in violation of the law, but as a man (no matter how irrelevant it may sound regarding Saakashvili). By doing so, he would intensify his own message of tailoring cases and political imprisonment. And now that he has entered Georgia to commit a new crime, he has even removed the formal basis for this message.

Blaming an illogical decision on drugs is also absurd, I think. No matter how addicted a person is, he always has enough time to take an illogical step.

Therefore, the most logical version is that Saakashvili arrived in Georgia not with the intention of going to prison, but with a strong hope of a coup d'état.

I would also like to tell the public that Saakashvili's revolutionary intentions were doomed to failure in all cases. According to his plan, even if he suddenly appeared on Rustaveli Avenue on October 3, the police would use a water cannon or in the worst case, suffocating gas to disperse their gathering of 5,000 people and arrest Saakashvili with ease. Saakashvili may not have remembered that Giorgi Gakharia is no longer the prime minister, and the government team is united today as never before.

The question naturally arises, then, what gave Saakashvili hope for success. There remains a sense of failure to find a logical reason for Saakashvili's arrival.

I think that the answer to this question should be sought in the recent history of Georgia and in their experience while in power of the "National Movement".

We all well remember that Georgia was the first to restore state independence. There was great enthusiasm, but we had no experience, and soon after independence we killed the first president. After that, the elderly Shevardnadze arrived in Georgia, during whose presidency the state was completely weakened due to Mkhedrioni's unbridled and extreme corruption. Against this background, in 2003, in a sickened country, Saakashvili and the United National Movement easily gained power by overthrowing the government by throwing stones. The state and institutions were so weakened that Shevardnadze could no longer even control his personal security service.

The "National Movement" has caused all kinds of trouble to the country for 9 years. They were allowed to do everything themselves, committed numerous crimes, including seizing almost all media outlets, allowing them to present all their failures successfully. Saakashvili sang himself "Misha is great" and believed his own lies. In fact, the "National Movement" is a group of failures with criminal tendencies, who can not plan and manage anything properly. This is where the main issue is at. Saakashvili planned to arrive in Georgia and overthrow the government with exactly the same "success" as he had when he "successfully" ruled the country in his time. So is his team, the National Movement, and that is why their 9 years in government and 9 years in opposition have become an 18-year history of failure.

However, they also failed to take into account the fact that instead of the declining state institutions of 2003, they now have met well-organized state institutions. They thought they could easily implement the plan. However, even in this case, they became victims of their own lies. For years, the National Movement and its propaganda party television stations have been trying to establish a false perception of a "collapsed state," and this lie is clearly self-evident. In fact, instead of a "collapsed state", Saakashvili met a well-organized state system in Georgia.

This explains the radical change in Saakashvili's mental state before and after his imprisonment - he entered the prison with a smile, and now he cares for nothing else, but how to get out of prison," Gharibashvili wrote.