“After one year, everything has been laid bare. Society is paying fines, filling the budget, and the regime and its last representatives are steeped in total corruption,” said Georgia’s fifth President, Salome Zurabishvili, during her speech at a protest rally near the legislative body.
According to her, this is a regime that sells and alienates Georgia’s lands. Zurabishvili stated, “The regime has already lost; its days are numbered!”
“After one year, everything has been laid bare. Society is paying fines, filling the budget, and the regime and its last representatives are steeped in total corruption – corruption on a scale I have never heard of anywhere else. We can no longer count the hundreds of millions, where they go. This is a regime that sells and alienates Georgia’s lands. There’s a new construction office opened here, but also dealings with the United Arab Emirates regarding land transactions. As if Rustaveli Cinema couldn’t stay on Rustaveli Avenue. These are the actions of this regime. This regime has already lost; it has no basis to continue, its days are numbered! We are obliged to hold on a bit longer. I want to say to the parents of political prisoners: I understand that when I say, ‘Let us hold on a bit longer,’ these are not easy words. These are not easy words for the activists either, who stand here every day and bear the responsibility for the continuity of this movement. I know nothing is ever easy when it comes to saving this country, not surrendering it to the Russians, even those dressed in Georgian clothes.
Here, we already have our victory, your victory. Let our hearts hold on a bit longer, and soon there will be a true, complete victory, new elections, a new society, and a new political space that we need. This is our future, and we all stand together for this future,” Zurabishvili noted.
Salome Zurabishvili: The regime and its last representatives are steeped in total corruption; the regime has already lost, its days are numbered, let us hold on a bit longer – let us not surrender to the Russians, even those dressed in Georgian clothes
