The “Young Barristers” were not allowed to attend the President’s meeting with non-governmental organizations. The mentioned fact would not have been of high significance if not president’s notable errors, which concerns the attitude towards public organizations. We consider that the President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili and his group, which determined the communication policies with public sector, is committing major mistakes. Straightforwardness and principles are core values of our organization. Thus, the “Young Barristers” will not avoid a trend of critical evaluation, which unfortunately arose and established in regards to president and his administration.

From 2013 president’s meetings with certain non-governmental organizations concerning human rights and legal issues is being conducted through selection (unfortunately, this trend is still continuing in certain governmental ministries). The President Giorgi Margvelashvili is duplicating the actions of his precursor, Mikheil Saakashvili, when the representatives of public sector, the experience of public groups, practical vision and solid, even different points of view were left ignored and unheard. Unfortunately we are not able to retain the major heritage from the revolution on 1^st October 2012 – to ensure the involvement of society in a crucial decision making. Georgian society chose Giorgi Margvelashvili for lobbying the interests of equality and public sector, however, president, during the communication with public sector, retains a typical attitude and approach for governmental person, when a difference arises between “my people” and “other people”.

The “Young Barristers” estimates that such actions from the President seriously damage the democratic situation in the country. The President can hold a discussion concerning the candidacy of the Chairman of the Supreme Court of Georgia with one group of public organization; however, president’s administration cannot label it as a collective opinion of non-governmental organizations.

We consider, that president should have offered a pluralistic and equal environment to NGOs for this specific dialogue. President should have invited the organizations to the meeting that actually have an experience on working with court and justice system. Expose the problems existing in the court. Therefore, the selection of organization according to who is the donor, partners and leaders of these specific organizations is not acceptable. Such approach deviates us from liberal thinking and brings the style of “United National Movement” governance closer. President is mistaken, when he leaves out the young jurisdiction specialists out of the institutional dialogue concerning issue of the Chairman of the Supreme Court Georgia. President preaches the strengthening of civil society, but society hasn’t heard any concrete opinion of what he proposes for liberal institutions. President is not discussing the problems and significance of youth human rights. President does not discuss the extent of youth politics and does not propose the communication model with youth organizations, being based on Hungarian experience. However, when in 2014 president speaks of an active youth organization, about its social involvement, like the previous times, these words are nothing more but those read out of the newspaper. (We hope the current president, unlike his predecessor, is reading Georgian newspaper.)

Therefore, the neglection of the “Young Barristers” from the meeting on January 15^th is more obscure, especially when we take in mind that the organization, from 2014, represents the consultation group of human rights and civil integration committee, while the head of the organization is the chairman of the committee, unifying more than 40 non-governmental organizations throughout Georgia, including the majority of the organizations from “Independent and Transparent Judiciary” coalition present during the meeting. Our organization had already made number of attempts to join the “Independent and Transparent Judiciary” coalition, for we believe holding the appropriate principles and being able to conduct such activities. The letter from organization on 12^th of November, 2013 is still left unanswered by 15^th of January, 2015. We consider that unless the monopolistic communication comes to end in the country, neither president’s institutions will be enhanced not the civil sector. 

We want to come to an end selection nature of the public governance in Georgia. We want for president and his administration to see the professionals instead of selected names, to make fair decisions and to diminish the unequal environment. We want to stay loyal to the history of our organization, to our activities, name, to our citizens to whom we serve, when we discuss the faults of Georgian jurisdiction system, the importance of democracy and human rights alongside the roles of active public groups during oppressive governance during 2003-2012 and the statuses and evaluations that were accompanied by them.

Dear President! The “Young Barristers” addressed you with an official letter on 13^th of January, 2015 made the importance and significance of our involvement in the meeting held on January 15^th with NGOs very clear. The organization got long awaited answer from the President’s administration on January 14, stating that your new advisor in human right and jurisdiction field, Mr. Kakha Kodjoridze already had a list, in which appearance would have been impossible. We did not communicate with Kakha Kodjoridze, for we addressed the chief of president’s administration, Mr. Davit Pataraia with a letter. We hope that your advisors will call for objectiveness in the future, than today, for you might favor or not certain organizations, any certain person, any idea, but you, together with president’s administration, are not allowed to subjectively take decision. Therefore, we hold high hopes that president’s mistakes will be covered up as soon as possible.