PM Garibashvili dismisses reports on his resignation

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has dismissed media reports on his resignation after municipal election runoffs scheduled on October 30. 

 

He said that the reports ‘are weak disinformation.’ 

 

Garibashvili also responded to today’s rally of the United National Movement (UNM) opposition in central Tbilisi, for the release of ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili, and stated that the country needs peace. 

 

“I do not want to speak about prisoner Saakashvili.He returned to Georgia to stage provocations and spark destabilisation and to even commit a murder,” Garibashvili said earlier today. 

 

He stated that Georgia needs to be concentrated on far more important issues than the UNM and Saakashvili are. 

 

Saakashvili claims he returned to Georgia after eight years in political exile ‘to save the country’ from the ‘regime of the Georgian Dream government.’ 

 

He has been on hunger strike since his arrest on October 1, just ahead of the October 2 municipal elections in Georgia. 

 

The ex-president was convicted in absentia back in 2018 for abuse of authority and was sentenced to six years in prison. 

 

He has also been charged with several other offences which are still in courts.