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🇬🇪I try not to react to #Georgia-n politicians’ tasteless & baseless attacks but now I was left no choice.
I met Ms #Tsulukiani when she was a young, aspiring politician & a lawyer. Sad to see how she radicalised over the years & is now spreading lies & disinformation.
2/7 Ms #Tsulukiani knows best that I was & am one of the biggest critics of #Saakashvili’s regime & fought for the right of 🇬🇪 people to democratically elect their government. Accusing me of colluding with #UNM is a deliberate lie that no reasonably thinking person will believe.
3/7 #GD’s disinformation is reaching the #Kremlin’s level. GD is not #Georgia, criticizing GD is not the same as criticizing 🇬🇪. This is why I call myself a Friend of Georgia, not a “Friend of GD”. Stop hiding behind the country’s good name. Take responsibility for YOUR failures.
4/7 It is not a “small group of politicians” that criticize democratic backsliding but the key politicians who determine the EU policy towards 🇬🇪in the EU.Parl & beyond. Check the signatures of the latest statements. Or wait for the next EU Parl resolution on Georgia.
5/7 These are BTW the same politicians who daily defend 🇬🇪's interests, who fought for Visa liberalisation, who fight for Georgia’s territorial integrity. Meanwhile, GD managed to deteriorate democracy & through back Georgia on media freedom from 60th to 89th place in 1 year.
6/7 I do not “interfere” in 🇬🇪 affairs. I am reminding U of the obligations U took & did not fulfil (#April19). If you want to be taken seriously, stop breaking promises, stop harming Georgia’s fragile democracy. Fix judiciary, stop stealing microphones, stop hate & polarisation.
7/7 I’ve been a friend of #Georgia (NOT its governments) for many years. Back then, I was taught a Georgian wisdom “criticize your friends to their faces and your foes behind their backs”. It is time for GD to learn how to handle the criticism & truth instead of throwing tantrums
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