Georgia’s former President Eduard Shevardnadze demands that incumbent President Mikheil Saakashvili be handed over to the courts.

In the meantime, the Georgian political scientists, who were interviewed by Kommersant daily of Russia, believe that the aforementioned demand could turn against Shevardnadze because, as per the analysts, restoration of justice in Georgia could start from Shevardnadze himself.        

In an interview with Asaval Dasavali newspaper, Shevardnadze criticized Saakashvili’s decision to send Georgian soldiers to Afghanistan. He wonders why the Georgian troops are still in Afghanistan in the case when, “The NATO countries are pulling their troops out from there.”     

According to Shevardnadze, Georgia should not stop its efforts for the return of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. At the same time the ex-President of Georgia salutes PM Bidzina Ivanishvili’s efforts, “To normalize relations with Russia.”    

Eduard Shevardnadze also commented on the attempt to hold a gay-rights demonstration in capital city Tbilisi on May 17.

“All these years Saakashvili has fought against the Georgian language, Orthodoxy, the traditional, and the national,” Shevardnadze stated in anger, and demanded a public trial against Mikheil Saakashvili and his political party.