Sarishvili-Chanturia: Government Must not Yield to Opposition’s Blackmail

Spokesperson of the pro-presidential election bloc For New Georgia and leader of National-Democratic party Irina Sarishvili-Chanturia accused the opposition National Movement and the Burjanadze-Democrats parties “of blackmailing authorities.”

She called for the authorities not “to yield to blackmail and maintain order in the country.”

“If it [government] compromises now, civil confrontation will be unavoidable. If we meet their requirements, the opposition will continue blackmailing in future as well. I urge the relevant agencies to perform their duties and maintain order in the country,” Irina Sarishvili-Chanturia said at a news briefing on November 6, while commenting two-day long mass protest rally organized by the opposition parties.

She said, the opposition’s protest is groundless, since “the 2 November parliamentary elections were the most democratic elections ever held in Georgia.”

Sarishvili-Chanturia also said that she is ready to withdraw her party’s membership from the pre-presidential bloc in case the government yields “to opposition’s pressure.”