The Seym asks Saakashvili. MPs of the Confederation - Wprost opposes it

The Seym asks Saakashvili. MPs of the Confederation – Wprost opposes it

Posted On: January 15, 2023

Marshal of the Sejm Elżbieta Witek wanted the resolution passed by acclamation, but some MPs opposed it. Therefore, a vote was taken. 438 MPs voted for the resolution. Only reps broke Confederation. Eight deputies of this club were against, and one – Christopher Bosack he abstained.

Robert Winnicki explained on Twitter that the Confederates opposed the resolution “because passing it is diplomatic nonsense”. “Georgia is a friendly country of Poland, last year it applied for EU and NATO membership, and it is against Polish national interests to make the government of this country an enemy. Stupidity!” – wrote the MP.

Sejm’s appeal regarding the former president of Georgia

The resolution noted “worrying information about the dramatic situation of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili” and “medical diagnoses showing the rapid deterioration of his state of health”. His “significant contribution to the formation of pro-European attitudes of Georgians” was also highlighted.

“The Seym of the Republic of Poland calls on the Georgian authorities to follow the universal principles of humanitarianism, according to which human life and health are of the highest value, and requests that Mikheil Saakshvili be immediately allowed to undertake the specialized treatment necessary that meets global standards, in accordance with the recommendations of doctors,” reads the text of the resolution. An appeal was also made to the “international community, friends of Georgia, for solidarity and persistent actions to save life and health of Mikheil Saakashvili”.

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Saakashvili dies in prison

The former president of Georgia was arrested and imprisoned in October 2021, upon his arrival in Batumi. Previously, from 2013, Mikheil Saakashvili remained outside Georgia. He lived for several years in Ukraine. At that time, local authorities were prosecuting the former president, and his supporters assured that any charges against him were politically motivated. At the end of November 2022, Shalva Khachapuridze, Mikheil Saakashvili’s lawyer, reports that traces of arsenic were found in the body of the politician. A group of 10 experts, after several days of consultations, concluded that it was very likely that the Georgian politician had been poisoned.

In mid-December, Saakashvili wrote a dramatic letter published in Le Mondein which he asked for help from French President Emmanuel Macron. “All my life, I fought for freedom and reforms in Georgia and Ukraine, (I also fought – editor’s note) against Russian imperialist policy. Putin considers me one of his main enemies,” the letter read. “I am dying, I have little time left,” Sakashvili wrote.