Imagine the state of our country and the people if we followed the logic of the former government, as the current opposition is urging us to do. Shalva Papuashvili said this in his Batumi speech, when he was a member of “Georgian Dream”, chairman of parliament.
The President of the Parliament addressed the people about the threats and blackmail that have been heard now from the rostrums of the European Parliament. This implies the imposition of sanctions against Russia.
According to him, the issue on October 26 is whether the opposition managed by the outside will be able to take the power of the Georgians to decide their own fate out of their hands and place them at the service to others’ interests?
What would happen if we followed in the footsteps of our adversaries, imposed bilateral sanctions and embargoes against Russia, closed our border, blocked air and ground traffic? This demand is now being sounded as an ultimatum from the European Parliament‘s rostrum, as blackmail or as a threat. This resolution revealed the pressure that our government has been under for all of this time. Earlier, it was denied or blamed on our imagination. What would it be like if we did not enter into an economic conflict and collapse the economy as happened in early 1990s? The state would have to reduce its ability to pay salaries, benefits, health care and education costs, as well as fund pensions and pay salaries. On October 26, the question is: Can the opposition from outside wrest power from the Georgian people and place them at the service to others’ interests? Shalva Papuashvili said, “He shuts up when asked to shut up, and shouts back when he’s shouted at.”
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