Scandal in Georgia: Gakharia's party reminded the "dreamers" who they were under Saakashvili

There is a scandal in the Georgian parliament — the party of ex-Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia reminded the Georgian Dream deputies who many of them were under ex-President Mikhail Saakashvili, who is currently in prison.

In response, Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili accused the opposition of shameful behavior and demanded to explain why Gakharia himself is hiding in Berlin.

According to the portal "News Georgia", the reason was a video that the opposition party "Gakharia — for Georgia" published on social networks. The video began with the phrase of Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze: "There is not a single "national" (members of the United National Movement party founded by Saakashvili) in any body." The authors of the video reminded that many of the current leaders of the Georgian Dream under Saakashvili felt great in power.

The Vice-speaker of the Parliament, Gia Volsky, worked as a Minister of State. Director Georgy Khaindrava, one of the brightest propagandists of the Georgian Dream, was also a member of the government. Other members of the parliamentary majority held high positions in ministries, and some were elected to parliament from the "National Movement".

The main blow fell on the deputy Tengiz Sharmanashvili. Facebook❶ has spread an old photo of him sitting in his office against the background of a large portrait of Saakashvili. In 2011, the ex-president appointed him Ambassador of Georgia to Armenia.

Irakli Kadagishvili, the head of the self-government committee, also got it. "Gakharia — For Georgia" called him a "putschist", recalling that in the early 1990s he participated in an armed confrontation that ended with the overthrow of the first president of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia.

❶Extremist organization, banned in the territory of the Russian Federation