`Our request is to protect the constitution of Georgia, which on one hand obliges country`s president to address the parliament and the society and on the other, the constitution obliges the parliament to listen to the president. We believe that by protection of this norm, we would have evaded many difficulties we faced a while ago. I am addressing you asking to provide implementation of the 5th point of the article N73 of the constitution of Georgia and appoint the date of the president`s report,` the president`s letter says.
Responding to President Saakashvili’s appeal, Parliamentary Chairman Davit Usupashvili said that by postponing President’s speech, the Georgian Dream parliamentary majority wanted to resolve pressing issues, including on constitutional amendments, and to give the President opportunity of making his speech before parliamentarians and not in “an empty chamber.”
“We have postponed, not canceled, your address in the Parliament with a purpose of avoiding making your address in an actually empty chamber of the Parliament,” Usupashvili said in remarks made during a session of parliamentary bureau, a body uniting senior lawmakers, which sets the legislative body’s weekly agenda.
“You will be able to make your speech from Parliament’s rostrum, tentatively by the end of March, when we complete discussions of other important issues,” he said.
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