The US condemned the attack on one of the opposition leaders in Georgia

“We strongly condemn the violence against peaceful citizens of Georgia, protesters, journalists and opposition figures, including the former Prime Minister of Georgia Gakharia,” wrote the representative of the US State Department Matthew Miller on the social network H.

Miller called the attack on Harakhia “another example of the Georgian Dream’s repressive tactics that will leave the country isolated.”

On January 15, in Batumi, the leader of the opposition party For Georgia, former Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Gakharia was beaten. He was diagnosed with a concussion and a broken nose.

According to the media, the deputy of the parliament from the pro-Russian Georgian Dream, Dmytro Samkharadze, as well as the member of the Verkhovna Rada of Adjara from the ruling party, Georgy Manvelidze, participated in the attack.

Protests in Georgia are the main thing

On November 28, Prime Minister of Georgia Iraklii Kobakhidze announced that his country is abandoning negotiations on joining the EU until 2028. After that, a protest against the policy of the current government resumed in Tbilisi on the square in front of the parliament.

On December 14, members of the electoral college elected ex-football player Mykhailo Kavelashvili as the president of Georgia. He was the only candidate for the post of head of state in the elections, which was not recognized by either the opposition or the then president Salome Zurabishvili.

On December 24, Zurabishvili announced the creation of a council to prepare for the parliamentary elections.

On December 28, a large-scale anti-government action, Chain of Unity, took place throughout Georgia. In Tbilisi, the participants formed ““living chain” is almost seven kilometers long.

On December 29, after Kavelashvili’s inauguration, Salome Zurabishvili announced that she would voluntarily leave the presidential residence and called the ruling Georgian Dream party a “Russian tragedy.”