Biden Administration. He also met several times with Christian Danielsson, the European Council's special representative on the crisis. During the negotiation process, he notably stated: Throughout the talks, Megrelishvili stated he would sign any compromise agreement. On April 19, 2021, he was one of the signatories of the Orbeliani Palace Agreement, a compromise negotiated by Charles Michel and saw part of the opposition agreeing to end the boycott in exchange of a series of judicial and electoral reforms. Georgian Dream cancelled the agreement a few months later, but Megrelishvili remained in Parliament. Term as MP Since taking office, he has served as a member of the Education and Science and Health Care and Social Affairs Committees, and of the Gender Equality Council, the Children's Rights Council, and the Georgia-Moldova-Ukraine Parliamentary Assembly. Megrelishvili has regularly criticized both the ruling Georgian Dream party and the opposition's United National Movement for promoting polarization. In a joint statement with five other MPs published in August 2022, he called for the implementation of the 2021 agreement, the abolition of the 5% electoral threshold for parliamentary parties, the transfer of imprisoned Mikheil Saakashvili abroad, and the return of Bidzina Ivanishvili to Georgian politics. During his first parliamentary address, he raised alarm on the country's increasing national debt. Megrelishvili has backed Ukraine in the midst of the 2022–2023 Russian invasion. In April 2022, he was part of the parliamentary delegation that visited Kyiv, Bucha, and Irpin. However, he has opposed calls to impose a visa regime on Russian citizens entering Georgia, arguing that a visa regime would not improve the country's national security situation and would be harmful to Russian citizens of Georgian ethnic origin. Political views Education and children's rights Vakhtang Megrelishvili is an outspoken libertarian. Himself a former professor and founder of a private school, he has regularly criticized the public education system of Georgia, calling it "beyond reform or improvement", and "based on violence and propaganda". He supports the deregulation of private schools, which he argues would promote diversity in learning strategies. He has spoken against compulsory education and favors unschooling, to grant parents more freedom in choosing the education of their children. Megrelishvili himself homeschools his three children. In 2021, he caused controversy for stating that "parental rights" trumped children's rights and criticized the adoption of the Code of the Rights of the Child by Parliament. His statements were criticized by the Partnership