The Prime Minister of Georgia threatens the president with putting her in jail next Sunday

MADRID Dec. 22 () –

The Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Kobajidze, threatened this Sunday the country’s president and political rival, Salome Zurabishvili, with jail once her term ends, on December 29.

“Salome Zurabishvili will have to leave office on December 29. We will see where she lives since then. Behind the bars or behind the bars. I think she will have enough sanity not to violate the Penal Code,” Kobajidze stated, according to the website. Georgian Civil news.

The prime minister has thus responded to Zurabishvili’s statements in which she claims to be the legitimate president in contrast to the man emerging as her successor, Mijeil Kavelashvili, who is close to Kobajidze.

“I assure you that not much will happen until December 29. The ‘deep state’ is not going to win in Georgia and the radical opposition will not win. Obviously there cannot be any serious plan from the radical opposition, including Zurabishvili,” he added.

The prime minister has raised “the hypothetical scenario in which (the president) barricades herself in the presidential residence” and has highlighted that “it is a crime contemplated in the Penal Code.” “I repeat: no one wants to send a 72-year-old woman to jail, but if she decides to act like this, she will be sacrificing everyone in the presidential residence,” he argued.

Thus, he has denied the possibility of repeating the elections that Zurabishvili proposes as a way out of the political crisis because “there is no legal basis” and has pointed out that early elections can only be held if the government loses a motion of no confidence.

Election petitions are “comical, but also a crime.” “The Penal Code includes specific provisions that contemplate prison sentences of several years,” he warned.