MP Gorduladze: The more they talk, the more they ban themselves

“As I said two days ago during the hearing, those from the “collective National Movement”, now split into various parties, should talk as much as possible. Even during the hearing itself, they are making statements that further strengthen our case,” MP Archil Gorduladze, chair of Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee, told journalists.

He argued that the ruling party’s case requires no further proof in the court of public opinion, given the wealth of information already available. Instead, the opposition’s own statements are inadvertently providing the claimant with even more evidence.

“Given the information in the public domain, the lawsuit doesn’t even need proving in the eyes of the public. Whether it’s Mikheil Saakashvili, Tamar Chergoleishvili, Bokuchava, Lelo’s representatives, Gakharia’s people or others, they always do the same thing: instead of campaigning in Georgia, they go abroad. Take what they did in 2024: they pledged to their foreign masters that they would fight together. When they failed in 2025, they sent a treacherous letter a month after the elections, saying, ‘We couldn’t do anything, so sanction the government and cut off all relations with Georgia.’ They admit it in their own words and at the same time give us more evidence to strengthen our case. They should talk as much as possible, and they will ban themselves, given how much evidence they are providing. And look at how they insult a constitutional body, as if someone with a foreign name and surname knows Georgia’s Constitution better than the judges of the Constitutional Court,” Gorduladze said.

The Constitutional Court is hearing Georgian Dream’s constitutional lawsuit seeking to declare the United National Movement, the Coalition for Change, Strong Georgia – Lelo, the Federalists and Gakharia for Georgia unconstitutional and ban their activities. The hearing began on 21 October.