Ruling party, opposition dispute over Zelensky’s live address to Georgian MPs

The Georgian  opposition has raised the initiative of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to address the country’s state legislature as it has already taken place in several European parliaments. 

 

The initiative proposed by the Lelo opposition party has triggered controversies and disputes between the opposition and the ruling Georgian Dream party MPs. 

 

Lelo MP, former leader of the United National Movement opposition party Salome Samadashvili, has expressed her suspicion that the Georgian Dream ‘would be happier to invite Russian FM to Parliament for speech’, with the ruling party MP Mamuka Mdinaradze responding that ‘do it yourself, as you (the opposition) have always benefited Russian interests.” 

 

Georgian PM Irakli Garibashvili has also accused the opposition, the former United National Movement government, of the sale of strategic facilities to Russia while in office and not imposing sanctions on the country back in 2008 after Russia invaded Georgia.