I think that the punishment and sanctions have backfired, it didn’t work and it won"t work, the public gets more annoyed by statements that are incorrect and often go beyond objectivity. Such a statement Bidzina Ivanishvili, the Honorary Chairman of Georgian Dream, made in an exclusive interview with TV Imedi.

“The [society] is more annoyed by such statements, which are incorrect and often go beyond objectivity. It doesn’t work and it didn’t work. What they wanted, in my opinion, it produced the opposite result.

As for punishment and sanctioning, I think that it also backfired and didn’t work and won’t work.

Are we waiting for that or not? Personally, I’m not waiting anymore. I think that what they could do and what they wanted to do, they exhausted it, it didn’t work.

I am telling the public with absolutely certainty, because I am busy with this 24 hours a day and I know the regions and the city well - everything backfired for an elementary reason, because it was all kinds of blackmail based on non-objective information”, - said Bidzina Ivanishvili.