"Georgian Dream" is radicalizing the processes in such a way that leads to complete deadlock - are you not going to continue the dialogue?! Do you no longer want the opposition to enter the parliament?! - Levan Ioseliani, the opposition vice-speaker of the Parliament, addressed the majority members with this statement at the plenary session of the Parliament.

Ioseliani called on the Georgian Dream to acknowledge the role of the parliament and not to continue the prosecution.

"Today I asked the representative of the Prosecutor General's Office whether it is a crime not to pay bail. I was told that as a lawyer I should know that this is not a separate crime. Yes, not paying the bail is no offense! Due to the non-payment of bail, the parliament should not give consent for a person to be imprisoned. The essence of MP immunity is to protect our freedom of expression and to protect the political risk that we, politicians, take in this particular case. Consider that non-payment is a form of political protest by Nika Melia. If the form of political protest is protected by immunity, then why do we terminate the immunity?! For two years he made no attempt to put pressure on the witnesses, to try to remove the evidence, or to try to hide it. There is no precondition for detention to be applied to him - the court has refused it itself. Why do we create a precondition for this and why do we give the green light for Melia to go to jail? Can the Parliament be an extension of the Prosecutor's Office?! The Parliament can say 'no' and wait for the substantive consideration of the case", - Levan Ioseliani said.

source: IPN