The ultimate goal of impeachment is that the President should resign, said the Chairman of Georgian Dream in the Constitutional Court, where the impeachment submission of Salome Zourabichvili is being considered.

“Initiating the impeachment procedure is a political decision. In 2022, we also made a political statement that the President violated the Constitution of Georgia.

She applied to the Government in April 2022, if I’m not mistaken, to get approval for the visits, she was refused and the President still made the corresponding visits, although we did not make this political decision then, due to the fact that at some point she changed this practice and did not violate it for a certain period of time. She underwent consultations and later consent was given to certain visits.

However, the political decision was made only after the President’s violation of the Constitution of Georgia gained a systemic character. When you initiate impeachment, from our point of view, it means that we no longer consider Salome Zourabichvili worthy of the presidency.

We said from the beginning that we do not expect 100 votes. We have a reasonable assumption that Salome Zourabichvili was violating the Georgian Constitution in the hope of gaining support from the opposition, but the ultimate goal and starting point of impeachment is that the President, as a rule, should resign.

This will be our goal, and if the Constitutional Court presents a positive conclusion to the Parliament regarding the violation of the Constitution, all relevant deputies will support the impeachment of the President. This is our political intention”, - said Irakli Kobakhidze.