Speaker of the Georgian Parliament condemned recent comments made by Member of the European Parliament Rasa Juknevičienė, calling on her to publicly apologise to the Georgian people.

“Rasa Juknevičienė - a supporter of dictator [Mikheil] Saakashvili - has described the Georgian Dream and its 1,120,000 voters as criminals and an infection. It is a matter of dignity for the European Parliament that their MEP issues a formal apology to the people of Georgia for her fascist and despicable statements”, - writes Shalva Papuashvili.

Rasa Juknevičienė’s expressed alarm over Georgia’s political situation. As she said, “we are concerned that another dictatorship might take hold in Georgia, on the European continent”.