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"Young people spun all this"
Kakha Bendukidze - about the reasons for the change of power in Georgia. Interview "Lente.ru"
Kakha Bendukidze, who occupied the posts of the head of the office of the government and the Minister of Economics of Georgia, was a supporter of Mikhail Saakashvili and one of the main ideologists of his reforms. In 2012, when billionaire Bidzin Ivanishvili came to power in Georgia, Bendukidze spoke about the causes of Saakashvili defeat.
As one of the reasons for the change of power, Bendukidze called the dissatisfaction of people “deduced during the time of Eduard Sheznadnadze”, Mikhail Saakashvili. At the same time, Bendukidze claimed that the scandal with the torture of prisoners in Georgian prisons was the decisive factor. It became known about torture right before the elections - according to the entrepreneur, the scandal provoked a “tectonic shift” in the sympathies of voters.
Saakashvili Bendukidze saw the merits in the successes of the Georgian economy and that he showed himself in the last election as a real democrat. According to him, the very defeat of the president in the elections is evidence that Saakashvili managed to build a real democratic state in Georgia.
In October 2012, Ilya Azar took an interview, at that time - correspondent "Lenta.ru".
“No, this is not the beginning of the end and not the end of the beginning. This is a very important event for Georgia as an emerging modern nation. This is how, you know, you need to either make vaccination or get sick. Vaccines are not invented, so you have to get sick. ”