“The number of people with social vulnerability status has increased significantly with each election. It increased especially during the 2012 parliamentary elections.”

“Mr Koba [Subeliani], I would like to remind you that when you were in government the budget of the Ministry of Refugees was GEL 25 million. It is now GEL 50 million which means that we’ve doubled it.”

“Georgia has one of the highest child mortality rates in the world and one of the lowest education levels.”

“An indispensable criterion for forming local governments is the knowledge of the official national language of Georgia.”

According to Davit Sergeenko, the National Statistics Office of Georgia determines the price change on medications by population surveys which do not reflect the actual situation. The Minister says that medication has become cheaper.

On 2 July 2014, in his interview with the media, the Minister of Labour, Health and Social Affairs

“Teachers’ wages have been raised and tens of millions of lari have been allocated for the construction and repairs of school buildings.”

“Mr Ivanishvili never said anything about reducing the petrol price by one lari. Please provide the source of such information. None of the members of the coalition have ever said that the petrol price would be reduced by one lari or that the electricity

“We have 16% growth in export in the first five months. The export of local, especially agricultural, products is growing.”

“From January to May, GEL 2.8 billion has been mobilised in the total budget which is GEL 130 million more than it was in the same period of the previous year. The tax income plan of January-May 2014 has been implemented by 101%. The income in these five

“Revenues from income tax have been increased and, as you know, income tax directly depends on the amount of wages. Hence, since the revenues have increased, the wages must have been increased as well.”

“There were 108 murders in 2011 and 74 of them got media coverage. In 2013, 50 out of 52 murders were covered by the mass media.”

“There have been no cases of human rights violations in the pre-detention centres. Foreign experts visited Georgia for a second time, studied the situation and saw that we have made big progress in this field.”

“This [L 410] is the most dangerous airplane in the world. It doesn’t meet any kind of safety criteria.”

“According to the Criminal Code, it is possible to commence proceedings based upon a fact, not a suicide. “