“If we wake up in Tbilisi where Kupradze is mayor and the opposition holds a majority in the city council, they will be in despair,” one of the leaders of the Lelo-Strong Georgia coalition, Aleko Elisashvili, stated on TV Pirveli.

Elisashvili explains that, in such a scenario, citizens would wake up to a very different Georgia.

‘Let’s go to these polls, do not mark Kaladze on the ballot paper; let’s contribute to the second round. I want to ask everyone. I respect everyone striving to defeat them. But let’s consider this: if we woke up in Tbilisi, where Kupradze is mayor and the opposition commands a majority in the city council, and they are in despair, wouldn’t we wake up in a different Georgia? Kupradze would come out the next day and say, “Go organise strikes, fight!

Imagine municipal services going on strike. Let’s make some assumptions. We’re not here just to curse. You have been cursing me for so long, right? I’ll say it again: whoever curses me, come forward and tell me if you have done more than I have. If anyone has done more, I salute this,” declared Aleko Elisashvili.

Lelo’s Tbilisi mayoral candidate Irakli Kupradze stated that “he will not be afraid to respond to the Russian government, and from October 5 onwards, as an oppositionist, the pro-Western mayor will organise an authorised rally every evening.”