The National Movement faction demands the establishment of a temporary investigative commission in the Parliament regarding the Racha disaster and its consequences.

“Even in the 2014 socio-economic strategy of Georgia, the implementation of modern early warning systems is defined as a priority task. The same goal appears in other official state documents. In 2018, the state received a USD 70 million grant from Western partners for the implementation of the monitoring system. Implementation of the system has been prioritized in the 2020 state budget, but we can see that the early warning system has not been created and the program outlined in the budget has not been implemented.

Levan Davitashvili, the former Minister of Environment, who is now the Minister of Economy and who 5 years ago insisted on the necessity of a monitoring system, says today that a similar tragedy would be inevitable under any conditions, no matter what systems we had and thus justifies the absence of a warning system and non-targeted spending of budget.

The possible waste of budget expenses, illegal actions of the relevant officials and the failure of the implementation of the monitoring system are the direct grounds for the creation of the parliamentary investigative commission.

Various expert groups, as well as members of the non-parliamentary opposition, also came forward with this initiative. We, including based on these considerations, consider it expedient to create a parliamentary investigative commission regarding the disaster in Shovi”, - said Tina Bokuchava, the Chairwoman of the faction.