Saakashvili Slams Gachechiladze’s Remarks
President Saakashvili criticized one of opposition leaders, Levan Gachechiladze, for remarks made in Zugdidi on May 21.
After a protest rally in Zugdidi, a town at the Abkhaz administrative border, which was held as a part of the opposition’s ongoing campaign in provinces in lead up to May 26, Levan Gachechiladze told journalists: “I’ll tell you directly I am not satisfied with protest charge here… Fortitude, which was always decisive for the Georgia’s history, should return in Samegrelo.”
“To say that people here in Samegrelo lack fortitude is ridiculous and immoral,” President Saakashvili, who visited Zugdidi a day later after the protest rally there, said. “There are no such intelligent, wise, courageous and patriot people, not only in Caucasus but in the world like here in Samegrelo and I am not exaggerating.”
He also said, without mentioning Gachechiladze’s name, that such insult was inadmissible “no matter what kind of political motives and goals one may be driven with.”
“One should not be resentful about others, just because himself is unsuccessful; instead one should think more about why he is unsuccessful,” he added.
Saakashvili was speaking at a meeting with a group of local residents in Zugdidi of various professions. “I want to hold series of this kind of meetings to listen to the locals’ opinions on broad range of issues from internal and foreign politics to economy,” Saakashvili said.
The President held a similar meeting with a group of locals in the town of Gori on May 23.
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