TBILISIA: A televised debate between Georgia’s rival lawmakers ended in a brawl, highlighting increasing tensions between the camps of the country’s feuding president and prime minister.
“You are scum, a killer and not a man,” Koba Davitashvili, a lawmaker from the ruling coalition, shouted at the opposition lawmaker, Sergo Ratiani. Ratiani in response smashed a glass of water on the table in front of himself, in the live talk show broadcast Wednesday night.
As a female presenter tried in vain to calm down the situation, Davitashvili approached Ratiani and the two fought for several seconds, exchanging blows, before they were separated by TV staff.
