“Our country deserves candidate status.
If someone sabotages and wants to sabotage, it is these destructive, anarchist forces,” he said in an interview with the Imedi TV company.
Garibashvili added that the Georgian authorities are doing everything possible for the country to receive this status.
Earlier, MEP Siegfried Mureşan did not rule out that Georgia could lose significant support from the European Union due to the suppression of citizens' protests.