“What happens in the United National Movement is the same as what happens in the Georgia Dream; it just started earlier in the UNM because it is weaker,” wrote Tamar Chergoleishvili, one of the leaders of the Federalists party, on social media.

According to her, any non-meritocratic, undemocratic system built on loyalty to one person’s whims rather than rules and principles is doomed to collapse. Mikheil Saakashvili brought this upon himself and is well aware of it.

“What happens in the United National Movement is the same as what happens in the Georgian Dream; it just started earlier in the UNM because it’s weaker. Every non-meritocratic and undemocratic system that stands not on rules and principles, but on loyalty to one person’s whims, collapses. Misha [ex-president Saakashvili] brought this on himself and is fully aware, yet like a drug addict, he can’t help himself and will cry ‘State Security Service’ to the end. As a result, it’s natural that the United National Movement continues to self-destruct and, following this logic will ultimately end alongside Bidzina [Ivanishvili, founder of the Georgian Dream].

Just as Bidzina’s system devoured Rijvadze, Garibashvili, Liluashvili, Gomelauri, so Misha’s system devoured and devours its own supporters and foundations until the democratic process cuts off both heads of the hydra and a homegrown mutant in the form of Khazaradze [Mamuka Khazaradze, leader of the Lelo party]. Everything is going correctly and we will win gloriously,” wrote Tamar Chergoleishvili.