Georgian Dream will rally voters in 2028 as opposition awaits court verdict on party bans, says MP Levan Machavariani

“The foreign-agent opposition has consistently boycotted elections and challenged their legitimacy for 14 years,” parliamentary majority member Levan Machavariani stated today, expressing confidence that Georgian Dream will successfully mobilise its electorate in 2028.

Machavariani emphasised that the ongoing opposition boycott forms a core argument in the ruling party’s lawsuit before the Constitutional Court.

“This continuous pattern of election boycotts and delegitimisation is precisely what we are challenging in our constitutional lawsuit against the collective United National Movement. For 14 years, we have seen them either boycott elections or declare them illegitimate after taking part. Even setting aside their criminal and violent past while in power, they remain locked in a perpetual state of sabotage, destabilisation, boycotting elections, and tearing up their parliamentary mandates,” Machavariani said.

“I am confident that we will mobilise our voter base again in 2028,” he added. “The more than one million supporters who turned out for us in 2024 were replicated in the 2025 elections. We will undoubtedly deliver that result once more. As for the agent opposition, they must first await the Constitutional Court’s ruling—then we shall see which of these foreign-funded parties remains on the political field at all.”

The comments follow a TV interview by Coalition for Change figure Giorgi Butikashvili, who insisted Georgian Dream ‘must be prevented from holding elections in 2028’ and called for civil resistance.