“It has been definitively confirmed that the leaked 28-point document was not only never agreed upon, but was never even considered for agreement, and was merely a compilation of Russian and Ukrainian wishes,” writes Tamar Chergoleishvili, leader of the Federalists party, on social media.

As Chergoleishvili writes, “It has also been confirmed that Ivanishvili’s regime is extremely vulnerable and sees its only chance of survival in Russia’s victory.

“The ecstatic barking of Ivanishvili’s zoo following the leak of this document merely confirms that Ivanishvili himself only sees his survival in an order where Russia is the unconditional victor. Any scenario in which Ukraine retains real sovereignty and receives international security guarantees is tantamount to a catastrophe for Ivanishvili. In this context, it is utterly irrelevant whether Ivanishvili receives orders from Russia or not; the result is that Ivanishvili’s fate hangs in the balance, depending on the unconditional victory of a terrorist state that has committed genocide against Georgians. In other words, we, Georgian patriots, must safeguard not only Georgia’s European future but also its very independence from a regime that is allied with Russia to cling to power.

The subjugation of Georgian society to Russia required Stalinist repressions, the murder, imprisonment, and deportation of 200,000 Georgians (we numbered 2.5 million then). The system that ensured these repressions has been destroyed in Georgia, unlike in Belarus, and Mdinaradze will never become another Yezhov, however much they hop about like sparrows.

To swiftly overthrow Ivanishvili’s regime, we need just two things:
1. Resolute and emphatically peaceful, flexible protest that does not recognise the regime, does not cooperate with it, and transforms into thunder at the right moment; 2. A visible political alternative, substance, substance, substance, substance… in Ofshkviti, Golaskuri, Vake, Atskuri, Nutsubidze Plateau, Gldani, Omalo…

Wherever one scrolls, their eyes and ears must be saturated with talk of their and their children’s future. The first task is being accomplished magnificently, and I have the greatest hope that false starts like October 4 will not be repeated, which the regime would spin as our failure; what is being done is enough, we cannot manage more than this, the main thing now is that we are many on November 28 and demand the regime’s resignation (the regime’s resignation means new elections and the release of political prisoners).

However, for the elemental force to culminate in regime change, we need to fulfil the second task, to open people’s ears so they hear that the alternative is better than the status quo. Here, we cannot hope for opposition television stations; the only thing we can hope for regarding television is that they become so weakened that they cannot hijack the agenda and spoil things, which is why I strike at them mercilessly, without hope of their reform.

I have hope in online media and projects such as those initiated by Tabula and the Liberty Institute with Ana Riaboshenko. If they secure sufficient funding to generate a surge of alternative political content, it might even be enough to overcome these obstacles. This is the plan. No other plan exists. Everything else is futile,” writes Chergoleishvili.