დაიშალოს კი არა, უნდა წაიშალოს, თუნდაც ამისთვის - ჯერჯერობით, ხახვივით შერჩათ ამხელა ზარალი:
A TALE OF TWO PARLIAMENTS
Georgian lawmakers waste millions because they can’t even agree on where to meet.
The Republic of Georgia is not a rich country, so it is hard to fathom why it has spent more than US$ 250 million over the past six years to run two separate Parliament buildings in two cities 200 kilometers apart.
The entire annual budget is only about US$ 4.5 billion but things are getting worse. The recent conflict between Ukraine and Russia (two major trading partners) has stifled trade and Georgia already imports three times as much as it exports. The average monthly salary is only about US$ 445—or at least it was before the Georgian currency, the lari, lost 22 percent of its value against the dollar.
The new Parliament building is too hot in summer and its roof is leaking. The land around it is still littered with debris.
The new Parliament building is too hot in summer and its roof is leaking. The land around it is still littered with debris.
So it is all the more inexplicable that since 2009, the country has spent at least US$ 257 million to build and maintain one old Parliament and one new one. Prosecutors say US$ 7 million of that sum was stolen by a politically connected contractor who built the new one.
It’s a sorry tale of political intransigence, waste and a leisurely corruption investigation that seems in no hurry to reach a conclusion. Meanwhile, Georgian taxpayers pay about $200,000 more each month than they would if they had just one parliament — the equivalent of the salary of 450 employees.
https://www.occrpcaucasus.org/en/a-tale-of-two-parliaments/