Kobakhidze considers comparison of war in Ukraine and peace in Georgia as fundamental

The comparison of war and peace is fundamentally important for the society to make the right choice in the parliamentary elections in Georgia. This is how Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze commented on the election banners of the Georgian Dream with the image of destroyed Ukrainian cities.

“Today we remind the public of the consequences of the war in general and what we avoided for our country in 2022, 2023, what we should avoid. This is the most important thing at the heart of these parliamentary elections and after these parliamentary elections,” Kobakhidze told reporters.

According to the premier, the posters reflect “what we avoided at the cost of too long struggle.”

He declined to comment on the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's condemning statement, saying only that “what is happening in Ukraine is unacceptable.”

Georgia's ruling party on Sept. 26 unveiled a series of election posters and a video urging voters to “choose peace” and say “no to war.” They contrast images of Ukrainian cities destroyed by Russian troops with images of churches, parks and new buses in Georgia.

The campaign sparked a flurry of criticism on social media. Georgian President Salome Zarabishvili called the new Georgian Dream election posters “made in a KGB blacksmith's shop.”

Official Kiev said it considers unacceptable the use in political advertising of “images of the terrible consequences of Russia's merciless war against Ukraine, the suffering and blood of thousands of innocent people, the destruction of church shrines and the cultural heritage of humanity.”

Reprinted from https://www.newsgeorgia.ge/