Parliament official: Temporary Investigative Commission exposes pre-2012 Government's scale of destruction, human rights violations

David Matikashvili, an MP from the ruling Georgian Dream party and Chair of the Georgian Parliament’s Committee on Procedural Issues and Rules, on Sunday emphasised the significance of the Temporary Investigative Commission’s work in exposing alleged crimes and systemic human rights abuses by Georgia’s pre-2012 Government, led by the United National Movement.

In his remarks, Matikashvili noted that the Commission had reached an important stage in its investigation, with plans to submit evidence-based conclusions to both the Prosecutor’s Office and the Constitutional Court, potentially calling for a ban on the United National Movement from Georgian political life.

“The Temporary Investigative Commission has once again shown the public the extent to which the pre-2012 Government was engaged in devastating its own country, violating human rights, killing young people in the streets, and systematically violating human rights in penitentiary institutions. Furthermore, from 2012 to the present day, members of the so-called collective National Movement have been trying to harm their own country. Of course, as a result of this commission’s work, there will be evidence-based grounds that will be submitted to both the Prosecutor’s Office and the Constitutional Court to ensure that the criminal syndicate known as the National Movement is banned from the Georgian political space”, Matikashvili said.

The Temporary Investigative Commission, examining crimes committed by the former United National Movement Government between 2003 and 2012, is scheduled to hold its next session on Monday.