Ruling party official says parliamentary inquiry will give grounds to seek ban on United National Movement party

Mamuka Mdinaradze, the Executive Secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Thursday said the findings of the Parliament’s Temporary Investigative Commission examining alleged crimes committed by the former United National Movement Government between 2003 and 2012 would provide a solid legal basis to appeal to the Constitutional Court for declaring the opposition United National Movement party and its satellite parties “unconstitutional”.

In his remarks, Mdinaradze reaffirmed that this initiative was part of the ruling party’s pre-election commitments.

“It is already clear that the findings of the Investigative Commission will give us a solid basis to appeal to the Constitutional Court regarding the declaration of the United National Movement and its satellite parties as unconstitutional”, the ruling party official said.

Furthermore, Mdinaradze revealed that a legislative proposal had already been initiated to extend this measure to successor parties of the UNM.

“In addition, we have already initiated a draft law that concerns declaring the successor parties of these parties unconstitutional if the essence of the party's activities, the personal composition of decision-makers, or the statutory goals are identical to the essence of the activities, personal composition, or statutory goals of the collective United National Movement”, he concluded.