Sending Saakashvili to Georgia was a special operation: Mamuka Mdinaradze's response to Zelenskyy
By Liza Mchedlidze
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Mamuka Mdinaradze, the chairman of the Georgian Dream party, responded to the statement of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy regarding Mikheil Saakashvili's transfer for treatment and called Saakashvili's return to Georgia a 'special operation' orchestrated by Ukrainian government:
"Sending Saakashvili to Georgia was a special operation. Today, the authors of the special operation even secured a statement from the President of Ukraine in favor of the special operation performer. This is a simple assessment," said Mamuka Mdinaradze.
According to Mdinaradze, the ruling team talks about the issue of Georgia's involvement in the war based on 'facts'.
"This is a simple assessment. When we talk about the fact that involvement in the war was one of the main goals of this special operation, we do not say it by chance, we base it on facts. It is not accidental, and in agreement with this statement, we can consider the statement of a number of high-ranking officials of Ukraine that today there are no people of war in the government of Georgia, and Mikheil Saakashvili would do it.
Yes, they have this expectation, and the planners of the special operation also ensured that even the President of Ukraine responded to the story and called on the Georgian authorities to do what he called on. We should consider these in correlation with each other, in synthesis. Such things do not happen by chance.
It was a special operation to involve Georgia in the war and to disrupt Georgia, which failed, and today, because we have no other choice, we consider all statements in this context," Mdinaradze said.
He also spoke about the research conducted by GORBI and noted that this study reflects reality, although the opposition does not trust it, but observes it with great interest.
According to Mamuka Mdinaradze, the rating of Georgian Dream is record high in the non-election period.
"You know that the increase in ratings during the election period is not unusual because the campaign and other factors are of great importance, but in the non-election period this rate is really a record, which means that the policy of "Georgian Dream" is supported by a very large part of the population of Georgia," said Mdinaradze.
