The idea of justice was directly ridiculed from the high tribune of the EPP - Papuashvili

Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili called the European People's Party statement "part of an opposition campaign" aimed at preventing Georgia from obtaining EU candidate status.

"We saw the statement that this is a text prepared by the UNM. This text once again showed us what we said, that part of the opposition is involved in a campaign to prevent Georgia from obtaining EU candidate status. What we saw in this statement is that when the Commission, then the Council of Europe had a few days to make recommendations and decisions, we saw that the main issue for them is still their party, so to speak, their colleague, Saakashvili. etc. This is another vivid evidence. National Movement and part of the opposition actually have a completely different agenda, which differs from the interests of the country and the people," Papuashvili said.

According to the Speaker, Mikheil Saakashvili's empty chair at the congress was a "hard picture, because it made the EPP laugh at the idea of justice". According to him, the party's patronage of Mikheil Saakashvili is not a European value.

"It was, of course, a very hard picture. We saw yesterday that the idea of justice was ridiculed right from the high tribune of the People's Party, the murdered Girgvliani, his family, the Strasbourg Court decision, the Georgian people's desire for justice, the fundamental European value, the rule of law," he said.

At the congress of the European People's Party, where Mikheil Saakashvili was invited, his empty chair stood in the hall yesterday. Nika Melia, chairman of the National Movement, spoke at the congress. Party chairman Donald Tusk read a letter from the third president.