The For Georgia party, led by Former Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia, has responded to the recently published Georgian government’s action plan for the fulfillment of the European Commission’s newly-defined 9 steps, calling it “weak.”
At the same time, the party members express their readiness to participate in working groups and call on the authorities to start work immediately.
“Immediately after the publication of the decisions of the European Commission and the European Council, we repeatedly called on the Georgian Dream to start working on the implementation of the 9 recommendations and expressed our readiness to be engaged in the working groups,” For Georgia wrote.
“From the day of the decision on the candidate’s status, Georgian Dream hides the plan. During this period, the Government did not show readiness to actually implement the recommendations.
“Yesterday, during the holidays, when almost no international partners are present in the country and it is impossible to find out their position, Georgian Dream published a weak plan.
“In a historic process for the country, before the decisive elections, the publication of such a content-weak plan is an additional motivation for our team to join the working groups, once again present specific initiatives related to fundamental reforms, which have already been presented to the Speaker of the Parliament and international partners, to use all levers to force the implementation of the recommendations and, in case of non-implementation of the recommendations, to clarify once again to the public the real intention of the Ruling Party.
“We express our readiness to participate in working groups and call on the authorities to start work immediately. Past practice has made it clear that Georgian Dream should not be left alone,” reads the statement.
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