"Georgian Dream" once again starts the impeachment procedure of the President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili.

The member of the political council of "Georgian Dream", the chairman of the parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, announced this at a briefing held at the party's office.

According to his explanation, the reason for making the decision is still unauthorized visits abroad.

According to Papuashvili, the new constitutional proposal will be submitted to the Constitutional Court of Georgia before the parliamentary elections, although the parliament of the new convocation will discuss the issue at the very first sessions.

"As you know, on October 16, 2023, the Constitutional Court of Georgia, as part of the impeachment procedure, declared Salome Zurabishvili a violator of the Constitution and confirmed the rule established by Article 52 of the Constitution of Georgia that the President has the right to make a foreign visit only with the consent of the Government of Georgia. You also know that the Constitution After confirming the fact of the violation, Salome Zurabishvili kept the position of the president only at the expense of the support of parliamentarians representing the radical opposition.

Salome Zurabishvili received a guarantee of inviolability from the radical opposition in the matter of violation of the Constitution, and later she continued to violate the Constitution of Georgia. In particular, even after the completion of the impeachment procedure, he made several foreign visits without the consent of the Georgian government, including last week he visited France, Germany, Poland and Belgium.

It should be noted that if before the decision of the Constitutional Court, foreign countries and organizations could say that they were not aware that the president needed the government's consent for his visit, after this decision, the reception of Salome Zurabishvili without the mandatory consent of the Georgian government, together with the intentional disrespect of the Georgian people and its constitutional arrangement, It is a violation of the principle of non-interference in internal affairs and is against our common European values. Our constitution is the fundamental act in which the will of the Georgian people finds a special reflection, therefore its deliberate, open and brazen violation cannot remain without response. Therefore, the parliamentary majority made a decision to restart the impeachment procedure and prepare a new constitutional submission, which will be submitted to the Constitutional Court of Georgia before the parliamentary elections.

After the confirmation of the violation of the Constitution by the Constitutional Court of Georgia, the Parliament of the new convocation will remove Salome Zurabishvili from office by impeachment with at least 100 votes at the very first sessions. As you know, Salome Zurabishvili's term of office expires this year. Accordingly, by impeaching her, the term of office of Salome Zurabishvili should be shortened by a maximum of one month. Therefore, his removal from office by impeachment, in terms of the term of office, has a largely symbolic load, although the legal and political load of this decision is very principled. We cannot leave the deliberate, gross and systematic violation of the main law of the Georgian people unpunished. The violator of the constitution, Salome Zurabishvili, should remain not the former president, but the deposed president, which, as a precedent, will play an important preventive role in preventing such arbitrariness in the future and strengthening Georgian democracy," Papuashvili said.