The belief that “perceptions are more important than facts” has done a huge disservice to some of our foreign partners, who fell victim of Saakashvili’s large-scale disinformation campaign, reads an open letter released by the Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia.

“The sheer scale of the Saakashvili health scam and the subsequent political fallout tells us two things: First, there is virtually no boundary to Georgia’s radical opposition’s lies. And second, more important, our foreign partners are perfectly capable of succumbing to false perceptions, thus undermining the trust in our relations.

The belief that “perceptions are more important than facts” has done a huge disservice to some of our foreign partners, who fell victim of Mikheil Saakashvili’s large-scale disinformation campaign.

Former Georgian president and erstwhile Ukrainian public servant, Saakashvili, has just announced his “comeback” to Georgian politics. This dramatic announcement came at the background of the allegations of him “lying on his deathbed” for months and months. In the first place, he has never been seriously ill and never left Georgian politics.

Also, his “comeback” is entirely inconsequential. But, apart from these simple truths, this political move is a reminder of a huge problem in Georgian politics: the scale of lies, which then translates into perception about the “backtracking” of Georgian democracy”, - writes Shalva Papuashvili.