MEP Kaljurand urges Saakashvili to restrain from provocations

MEP Marina Kaljurand has tweeted that she has urged Georgia’s third president Mikheil Saakashvili to restrain from provocations, use his political capital to help to depolarize pre-election situation in Georgia and respect OSCE/ODIHR decision which will be released after the October 2 municipal elections. 

 

<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>At MEPs meeting with <a href=”https://twitter.com/SaakashviliM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@SaakashviliM</a> I urged him to restrain from provocations and use his political capital to help to depolarize pre-election situation in Georgia and respect <a href=”https://twitter.com/osce_odihr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@osce_odihr</a> decision after  local elections on Oct.2 <a href=”https://t.co/774YiN2MCG”>pic.twitter.com/774YiN2MCG</a></p>&mdash; Marina Kaljurand MEP (@MarinaKaljurand) <a href=”https://twitter.com/MarinaKaljurand/status/1437857976627433482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>September 14, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>

 

Saakashvili has pledged that he will return to Georgia ahead of the municipal elections. 

 

He is a citizen of Ukraine and is holding an official post there. 

 

The ruling Georgian Dream party says that Saakashvili will be arrested if he really returns. 

 

Saakashvili left Georgia back in 2013 and is wanted by Georgian law enforcers for abuse of authority and other charges.