Parliament of Georgia may start Saakashvili's impeachment procedure

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Parliament of Georgia calls to start impeachment proceedings of the President Mikheil Saakashvili . The representative of the Republican Party, a member of the "Strong Georgia" opposition faction Carlo Kopaliani told a press conference in Tbilisi, that the report of the EU commission, acknowledging Saakashvili to be guilty for the war in South Ossetia, enables to start such a procedure.  

 

As GeorgiaTimes says, according to the deputy, the report showed that "the emperor is naked, and those who are trying to cover up him - are fig leaves." Carlo Kopaliani called on Saakashvili to resign voluntarily.  

 

In accordance with law, a document on the impeachment must be signed by at least a third of the 150 MPs. Only in this case the document is then passed to the Supreme and Constitutional Courts of Georgia. A day before the movement of Levan Gachechiladze "Protect Georgia" launched a campaign to" alienate Georgia from the President Mikheil Saakashvili".  

 

The report of the EU commission acknowledged that the Georgian authorities are guilty of unleashing of active hostilities, the massive large-scale military operation in Tskhinvali and the application of prohibited weapons. Furthermore, Saakashvili's regime was accused of shooting and destruction of non-military objects and military attack on the UN peacekeeping mission. 

 

Last week, the opposition, which has long conducted an open war with the president, demanded to recognize Mikheil Saakashvili to be a war criminal and bring him before a tribunal. As the Labor Party of Georgia stated, if Saakashvili is not disarmed on time, he would endanger the entire region.  

 

The party also announced its intention to apply to the official Brussels and Washington to immediately start an investigation over the Georgian leader's actions. Earlier, the Labor Party demanded that Saakashvili resigned himself. The Conservative Party raised the issue of starting prosecution against the president and impeachment.  

 

Mikheil Saakashvili has repeatedly said that he is not going to resign before expiration of his term in 2013. In regard to the report of the EU Commission, the president first called it "a diplomatic victory of Georgia," and then accused the commission of authority abuse. As the leader of Georgia said "one does not need know much to give a true assessment of the other country's heavily-armed troops invasion, the country, which threatened you for many years."