It is absolutely unheard of when [Mikheil] Saakashvili, [Nika] Gvaramia and Bidzina Ivanishvili are put on the same page. Such a statement made the Chairman of the Georgian Dream, while commenting the words of Salome Zourabichvili.

“I really don’t know what the President wants. We were directly involved in her presidential campaign, the whole process lasted for about 45 days, and we could not understand what was she saying, when and why, but we still managed to win.

Salome Zourabichvili’s statement about Bidzina Ivanishvili was morally difficult to listen to. It is absolutely unheard of when Saakashvili, Gvaramia and Ivanishvili are put on the same plane.

It turns out that the President has to defend Georgia from Bidzina Ivanishvili. The man is out of politics. Leaving this aside, there are several factors from a moral point of view, when the issue of candidacy in the presidential elections was discussed, the initiative to nominate a candidate belonged to Bidzina Ivanishvili.

Given that the President is a symbolic figure in a parliamentary republic, the focus was on symbolism. The emphasis was on the fact that she was a representative of the old diaspora and 100 years later, after 1918, in 2018, it was symbolically important that a representative of that diaspora became a President.

Besides, the female President was a kind of expression of our historical tradition, an aspiration to continue this tradition. A person from Europe diaspora who becomes President, a woman, a European - this was the symbolism on the basis of which, in the end, the focus was on Zourabichvili and the choice on her candidacy was made. This was Ivanishvili’s initiative and if it were not for this initiative, in this case Zourabichvili would have been an ordinary MP.

Let’s take this moral side. As for the content itself, when she discusses Saakashvili, Gvaramia and Ivanishvili in one context, I do not even know how it can be assessed. Beyond that, her assessments regarding the EU are becoming absolutely irrelevant. The first part of this statement is so grave that I would not comment on the second part at all.

The President must understand the system, in which domestic and foreign policy is fully implemented by the Government led by the Prime Minister. This is a system. As for foreign policy, if there is an extraordinary consent of the Government, only then does she interferes in foreign policy. Only then - it is directly written in black and white in the Constitution.

Salome Zourabichvili knows this, of course, but she wants more than the Constitution attributes to her, which is wrong. The President must first follow the Constitution and act in accordance with the Constitution”, - said Irakli Kobakhidze.