{"id":192319,"date":"2025-10-06T17:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=192319"},"modified":"2025-10-06T17:47:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:47:41","slug":"kakha-kaladze-i-dont-care-about-the-eu-i-care-about-his-majesty-the-georgian-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/192319\/","title":{"rendered":"Kakha Kaladze: \u2018I don\u2019t care about the EU, I care about His Majesty, the Georgian people\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kakha Kaladze, Secretary-General of the ruling Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia party and mayor of Tbilisi, has stated that he does not care what the European Union thinks about Georgia’s elections; what matters to him is the choice of the Georgian people, TASS<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

Earlier, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas and European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos issued a joint statement noting that municipal elections in Georgia took place under conditions of widespread pressure against dissent.<\/p>\n

“I do not care about the European Union at all. I care about His Majesty, the Georgian people. You must understand one thing: the rulers of this country are the ordinary citizens you see, not someone coming from outside. Remember this: this country is governed exclusively by His Majesty, the Georgian people,” Kaladze told reporters.<\/p>\n

Municipal elections were held in Georgia on Saturday. Mayors and city council (Sakrebulo) members were elected in 64 municipalities. According to the Central Election Commission, after processing 100% of the polling station data, the ruling Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia party won in all municipalities, receiving 81.7% of the proportional vote nationwide. The incumbent mayor of Tbilisi received 71.61% of the votes in the capital. Voter turnout was 40.93%.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kakha Kaladze, Secretary-General of the ruling Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia party and mayor of Tbilisi, has stated that he does not care what the European Union thinks about Georgia’s elections; what matters to him is the choice of the Georgian people, TASS reports. Earlier, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":192289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,97,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-georgia-en","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192321,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192319\/revisions\/192321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}