Michael Roth, the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag, is currently in Georgia, engaging in the country’s political disputes. He shares his impressions of the trip on social media. “Finally back in the city. Tbilisi is really the capital of Europe” he writes on X.
In another post, he comments, “I love these women! Brave Europeans instead of armchair critics.”
Before his current visit, Roth had announced that it would be his last trip to Georgia.
“I’m looking forward to my farewell visit to Georgia next week. I want to support all the engaged Europeans and freedom fighters and bid farewell as a German politician to my friends. Even if my parliamentary mandate is about to end, I will continue to advocate for a free Georgia at the heart of the European Union” he states.
Roth has once again criticized the ongoing protests and arrests of activists. The politician demands that Bidzina Ivanishvili, the founder of the Georgian Dream party, release all political prisoners immediately. “An authoritarian regime like the one in Georgia, which tries to silence the opposition and critical voices through arrests, will ultimately lose” Roth emphasizes.
Roth had become increasingly unpopular in his party in recent years due to his repeated demands for further weapon deliveries to the government in Kiev and more “solidarity” with Israel. At the SPD party convention in December 2023, he was removed from the party’s executive board, and in March 2024, he announced that he would not run for the Bundestag again in the next election and would leave politics.