Georgian parliament speaker: Brussels abandoned its own requirements

Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili has stated that Brussels has abandoned its own requirements related to the rules of democracy, following the elections in Hungary.

Papuashvili made the remarks while commenting on recent political developments in Budapest, Caliber.Az reports, citing Georgian media.

“In Hungary, an opposition leader received a single-party constitutional majority, and everyone congratulated him. Remember the hysteria we saw here when Brussels claimed that without a coalition government there could be no democracy, and that a single-party majority is undemocratic,” he said.

Papuashvili added that, in his view, Brussels has effectively abandoned the standards it had long imposed on Georgia.

“They themselves confirmed that the main thing is the will of the people, and if people have made such a choice, it must be accepted,” he emphasised.

By Bakhtiyar Abbasov