Georgian Dream Discusses Banning the "National Movement" from Political Activities

| News, Politics, Georgia

Former Minister of Justice and Culture and current "Georgian Dream" MP, Tea Tsulukiani, stated in an interview with the Public Broadcaster that the findings of a parliamentary investigative commission she led will be used in the Constitutional Court to ban the United National Movement (UNM) and its members from political activities. The commission was established to uncover crimes committed during the UNM's time in power.

"This is not just a text that tells various stories and tragedies that the Saakashvili regime brought upon our citizens and the country. It contains evidence and facts. In particular, this conclusion confirms that the power that ruled our country for nine years and is now in opposition lacks the resources to change. It has neither the will nor the ability to do so. Accordingly, this is the same power that, if it returns to power, promises us at least a repeat of what it did for nine years, and probably something even worse," Tsulukiani said.

"That is why the parliamentary majority and the Georgian Dream, as a party, have decided to use this conclusion as the basis for initiating appropriate legal procedures in the Constitutional Court, the goal of which will be to ban the political activities of the National Movement and its members. This is the goal because we believe that without this, the country has no prospects for development. 'Georgian Dream' cannot be in power forever, and our duty, our task and mission is that when we have to leave power—not on October 5 through an overthrow, but through elections, as the time will someday come—we must exclude the chance and risk that the perpetrators of the facts described in the conclusion will return to power," the Member of Parliament told the Public Broadcasting Service.

The temporary commission began its work in February 2025. It held 46 sessions, during which 139 people were interviewed. The report, created by Tea Tsulukiani’s commission as a result of six months of work, is 460 pages long (without appendices) and consists of five chapters and more than one hundred subchapters. In addition, the list of appendices is more than ten pages long.

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