Speaker of the Georgian Parliament responds on the Bundestag representatives’ statement regarding ongoing events in Georgia, in which they claimed that OSCE/ODIHR long-term observers were not allowed to monitor the elections, on the social network X.

“In the midst of entire Europe hotly debating misinformation and foreign interference, some German MPs from the leading political parties seem to be oblivious to the misinformation and foreign interference of their own making.

Thus, their joint statement below contains blatant lies. First, despite the allegation that Georgian authoroties prevented the long-term OSCE/ODIHR mission from elections, in fact, the mission did arrive in Georgia a month before the Parliamentary elections and enjoyed all necessary conditions to conduct their work.

The second blatant lie is that Georgian Prime-Minister Irakli Kobakhidze stated he “would rule out accession negotiations with the European Union (EU) until 2028”, while Georgian PM, in fact, stated that Georgia would not raise the issue of EU negotiations on its own part until 2028, and, at the same time, called the EU to launch the negotiations as soon as possible. ‘Ruling out’ part seems to be the phantasy of the authors of the statement.

These blatant lies, coupled with the unapologetic interference, in fact, participation of the chair of German Bundestag’s foreign affairs committee Roth in Georgian radical opposition’s pre-election campaign leaves no space for a mistake: While complaining about foreign interference, some German politicians are all but happy to interfere in other countries’ domestic affairs and spread disinformation”, - writes Shalva Papuashvili.