Federalists’ Chergoleishvili: Let Saakashvili speak, but he will have to honour agreement if he wishes to stay with us

“Everyone must abide by the agreement,” said Tamar Chergoleishvili, leader of the Federalists party and member of the Opposition Alliance, speaking to journalists.

When asked by a journalist to respond to former President Mikheil Saakashvili’s statement that he had no intention of falling silent, Chergoleishvili replied:

“Let him not fall silent. But he will still have to honour the agreement; he cannot stay with us otherwise.”

On April 18, former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili wrote on social media: “Our path cannot be the Hungarian one, it must be the Georgian one. The Georgian way is revolution. You sit in your warm television studios and wonder why people aren’t coming out onto Rustaveli.”

Eight parties within the Opposition Alliance responded to the post with a statement of their own: “No single party has the right to declare itself the sole representative of the protest movement, or to position itself as a one-party or one-man leadership.”

Saakashvili then published a further post on April 21, writing: Friends, adjust your aim. It is high time you freed yourselves from using me as an excuse, focused entirely on the matter at hand, and if things do not work out, stop blaming Misha – just work harder.”

For reference, nine opposition parties announced the formation of the Opposition Alliance on March 2. Its members are: Ahali, Girchi, Droa, European Georgia, the United National Movement, the National Democratic Party, Freedom Square, Strategy Aghmashenebeli, and the Federalists.