Conservative Party Leader Speaks of Ties with Okruashvili

Kakha Kukava, a lawmaker from the opposition Conservative Party, said efforts to find common ground between his party and the ex-defense minister, Irakli Okruashvili, had come to nothing, for now.
 
?I wanted to have a relationship with Okruashvili, similar to that between President Saakashvili and the Liberty Institute [an influential non-governmental group], meaning that we would have been policy-makers and Okruashvili ? the president. Okruashvili, however, has rejected this approach, because he wanted to do everything on his own,? Kukava said in an interview with the Georgian daily, Rezonansi, published on August 1.

Kukava, however, said he hoped to reconvene talks with Okruashvili sometime in September or October. By then, he said, Okruashvili would realise his limited public support and would be more inclined to cooperate.

Kukava also said that Okruashvili would come to realise that his alliance with Gia Tsagareishvili, a lawmaker from the Industrialist Party and Koka Guntsadze, an independent opposition lawmaker, was an insufficient political base.

?I hope Okruashvili will soon understand this and will establish an alliance with the Conservative and Republican parties,? Kukava said.

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