President Zourabichvili holds briefing in response to rally in front of President's Administration
By Liza Mchedlidze
Thursday, December 29, 2022
The President of Georgia, Salome Zourabichvili addressed those gathered near the President's administration building, who were demanding that Mikheil Saakashvili not be pardoned by the president.
The president came out to the yard with the members of the administration and addressed the rally participants with a microphone, however, she stopped her speech due to the noise of the rally participants and scheduled a briefing.
"If you came here, on someone's spread rumors, people who are spreading their created rumors about me, where were they in 2007, where were they when the tragedies of Misha's time happened, when we were standing in the streets.
I will tell you where those who spread the message boxes were today - either they were in Misha's headquarters, or they were hiding in positions or they were in 'Cartu'.
Those who spread the message box today, it turns out, know what I will do; It turns out they know when I will; It turns out they know why I will do it," Zourabichvili told rally participants.
Later at the briefing, President Zurabishvili stated that during the last few days the pressure on the President is going on in various forms and message boxes. They threaten her, question her morality, and 'teach' her how to fight Saakashvili 'when he is already down'.
"I know that this rally was not only organized by those people, but it was accompanied by various message boxes that have been circulating these days and it was done deliberately to put pressure on the president, from a party whose leaders were nowhere to be found in 2007. This is the year when everything happened.
These people, who are threatening me today in various ways, including my career and so on. These people were nowhere then and now they are teaching me, asking me about morality, and teaching me how to fight against Saakashvili, who has already fallen," she said.
Zourabichvili said that the current government pardoned Murusidze and Chinchaladze and appointed them to permanent positions, which threatens the future of Georgia as they are 'blocking' the European path for the country.
According to Zourabichvili's, two forces, the ruling party, and the opposition have profited from Mikheil Saakashvili's return to Georgia. She said that one force was urging him to return to Georgia and was a promising revolution, and the other force was 'playing with his Georgian character' and tricking him into returning.
Zourabichvili said that Georgia has been put on hold around Saakashvili's issue and both the ruling party and opposition are profiting from this situation.
The president added that the bullying, humiliation, and blackmailing of the woman, the president, is unacceptable and she does not clearly understand why she is involved in this and asked why are NGOs not saying anything regarding this matter.
