“I think that the starting point should be that the new government and new parliament should assess the existing situation which is not very good. Actually, it’s quite bad” – Ruslan Khoroshvili from EY told The Checkpoints while talking about the agenda that the business community and citizens might have for the new parliament after the elections.
“The diagnosis is quite severe” – Khoroshvili added drawing on numbers: GDP per capita, which is 4400 USD which is 97th in the world; sovereign rating which is BB- which actually means that we are not an investment-grade country and UN’s assessment that by 2050 Georgian population will be reduced by 1.2 million, leaving only 2.5 million of Georgian citizens left while at the same time, for example, Azerbaijan is predicted to grow by 35%; and Armenia by about 7%.
“I’m personally ashamed that over 30 years of almost our independence we have not been able to achieve more – Khoroshvili added - Therefore I want the new parliament new government to have the ambition to achieve more – to achieve radical breakthroughs because that’s what we need”.
