Jailed ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili’s lawyer, Nika Gvaramia, said the ex-president felt weak physically but was strong emotionally. According to Gvaramia, Saakashvili called on everybody to go to the polls on October 30 and extended his regards to mayoral candidates.

“He (Saakashvili) is happy that political parties, unacceptable for him in the past and for whom he was also unpopular, managed to consolidate,” Gvaramia claimed.

Nika Gvaramia said Georgia’s third president rejects hospitalization at the Gldani Prison infirmary.

In the letter voiced by Gvaramia, Saakashvili said: “Whatever my health state is, I refuse hospitalization at Gldani Prison infirmary, and I would rather stay where I am now until my death or freedom ends this situation,” Saakashvili said.

In the same letter, the ex-president wrote that he has no complaints to a group of physicians formed to monitor his health state. Gvaramia further informed that lawyers only are allowed to deliver Mikheil Saakashvili’s letters out from the prison.

Special Penitentiary Service explained that visitors are prohibited from passing inmates’ messages out of prison. The penitentiary facility ensured the prisoners could send an unlimited number of letters to an addressee based on Article 16 of the Imprisonment Code at their own expense.

The government says that the ex-president will be hospitalized at the N18 Prison infirmary, and no civil clinic is considered.

Law enforcers arrested Mikheil Saakashvili in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on October 1 and sent him to N12 Rustavi prison. Ex-president has been on a hunger strike since the very first day of his arrest.