Parliament official claims domestic radical opposition “politically, legally, morally bankrupt”

Irakli Kadagishvili, the Chair of the Regional Policy and Self-Government Committee of the Georgian Parliament, on Saturday claimed the domestic radical opposition was “politically, legally, and morally bankrupt”.

In his remarks, Kadagishvili noted that the opposition’s refusal to participate in the upcoming local self-government elections scheduled for October was a direct acknowledgement of their diminishing relevance in Georgia’s political landscape.

“The path they have chosen will ultimately leave them outside the election process entirely. Today, they are politically, legally, and morally bankrupt. That’s why they lack any political strength to participate in the local self-government elections”, the Parliament official said.

Kadagishvili further noted that the radical opposition was fully aware that their defeat in the local elections would be even more significant than in the parliamentary elections.

“They also know very well that if they do participate, their defeat will be even more crushing than it was in the parliamentary elections. The path they have chosen will logically lead them to becoming entirely irrelevant as a political force in elections”, he concluded.