Consideration of the lawsuit to ban opposition parties continues in the Constitutional Court

Progress of the court proceedings

Since October 21, the Constitutional Court has been considering the constitutional lawsuit of "Georgian Dream," which requests that the activities of the "National Movement," "Coalition for Change," "Strong Georgia – Lelo," "Federalists," and "Gakharia for Georgia" be declared unconstitutional and banned. The respondent party is presenting its arguments at the hearings. According to the Chairman of the Constitutional Court, Revaz Nadaraia, the stage of explanations is finished and the court is moving to the question stage, which will resume on November 9 at 14:00. 1TV+6

Positions and assessments of the parties

Chairman of the Parliament's Legal Issues Committee Archil Gorduladze states that the representatives of the opposition parties are not talking about facts and their statements are lies. For his part, Chairman of the Parliament's Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Committee Tornike Cheishvili believes that the arguments voiced by the respondent party only reinforce the accusations presented in the ruling team's lawsuit. Imedi+2

At the hearing, representative of "Gakharia for Georgia" Berdia Sichinava stated that Giorgi Gakharia never intended to run away from responsibility, which was followed by a retort and a verbal argument from Archil Gorduladze. Revaz Nadaraia called on the parties to be correct. Rustavi 2

International reactions

The consideration of the case has been followed by international criticism. The European Parliament adopted a resolution demanding the "immediate withdrawal" of the lawsuit, while the co-rapporteurs of the Congress of the Council of Europe called the process "deeply worrying." Civil.ge