Nika Melia responds to the visit of the management of United National Movement [UNM] to David Kezerashvili [former Minister of Defense].

“Many important events are taking place inside and outside the country, however, I could not ignore the information that was announced yesterday about the meeting of businessmen close to Ivanishvili and the leadership of the UNM.

For me, political corruption, turning politics into a business, a means of earning money and gaining business influence, political trade, the oligarchic governance system created by Bidzina Ivanishvili is unacceptable. If there is something Russian in politics, it is this...

When a group of opposition representatives, a decision-maker in status, but actually an executor of tasks, approaches the door of their financier and “music orderer” (because that’s how they understand, whoever pays, he also orders the music), and meets “group of businessmen close to Bidzina”, what should we think?

The corrupt system that has been established in the country is acceptable for these people. If it was not acceptable, they could not adapt. These people are making money today by awarding tenders that cost lives.

What motivation might these people have with an opposition political group? Only two: pursuing Bidzina’s interest; in case of a change of government, to sort out one’s own interest.

And what interest can you, the leader of the opposition party, have with such people, if political corruption is unacceptable to you, if the existing system, informal governance with money, is unacceptable, if the way of doing business of these people is unacceptable, and if you want to change it, not to replace names and surnames.

There are legitimate questions to which the society deserves answers. It is necessary to stop doing politics behind the scenes and managing processes with the interests of a narrow group”, - writes Nika Melia.