Coalition for Change's Melia questions whether GD won elections with "Do you want war?!" message or rigged them
Coalition for Change's Melia questions whether GD won elections with "Do you want war?!" message or rigged them

“We need to determine whether the Dream (Georgian Dream party) won elections with their effective message ‘Do you want war?!’ or if the elections were rigged,” one of the leaders of the Coalition for Change Nika Melia posted on social media.

According to Melia, the elections were falsified on an unprecedented and massive scale.

“We need to decide: did the ‘Dream’ emerge victorious due to their compelling message ‘Do you want war?!’ or were the elections manipulated? Was their success a result of an inability to respond adequately to the ‘Dream’s’ propaganda, or did they resort to falsification precisely because their messaging was ineffective? The elections were rigged on an unprecedented, massive scale. No democratic entity has recognized the results of these elections, and they lack both international and Georgian popular legitimacy.

The ‘Dream’ lost the elections—its propaganda failed. To claim that the ‘GD’s’ propaganda could not be countered, which allowed them to mislead a significant portion of society and achieve results, is, to put it mildly, not serious. The public clearly understood the source of the threat of war and made their choice for peace—to become an integral part of the collective security system, the European Union, and Western civilization. This choice has now been stolen.

‘So, do you want war?!’—they have turned this into a self-justifying slogan for the ‘Dream’s’ party supporters (governors, mayors, their families, and associates). They wouldn’t admit they are voting for the Dream because it enables them to embezzle funds, manipulate tenders, and so on. I spent my entire election campaign in the regions; I visited almost every city and many villages across Georgia over the past four months. Nowhere did I hear this message from voters. If I did hear it, it was almost always from governors, bureaucrats, and GD campaigners.

Therefore, those who wish to engage in this discourse must finally decide: were these elections rigged, or did the Dream win with an ‘unanswered’ narrative?” Melia concluded on social media.