“When the talk turns to depolarisation, it is perfectly plain who the chief architects of polarisation actually are,” declared MP Levan Makhashvili, Chairman of Parliament’s European Integration Committee.

“I am not in the least surprised to see the authors of May 26, 2011, once again setting their sights on May 26. It is most interesting how they keep aligning themselves with events of that kind, their so-called final acts, which one can read in advance as encompassing matters of public confrontation. Once again, they are doing everything in their power to sow division and inflame discord in society; when the talk turns to depolarisation, there you have your principal architects of polarisation, that much is plain enough.

As for this alliance: a few weeks ago they announced that they had ‘risen up and stand together’, and now it’s yet more new names, yet more different colours, yet more fragmentation by label. These radicals have fashioned themselves into a rainbow opposition; every day, every moment, wherever the wind blows, or the rain falls, they must present themselves to the public under a new name and a new colour. The country has no interest in these fresh, pretty names, these creative concepts and rainbow hues. If there is anything the public is interested in, it is the offer of concrete solutions to concrete problems. Instead, they are once again trying to confuse the public with yet more new names,” Makhashvili stated.

He added that the public has no interest in how opposition figures arrange and redistribute themselves amongst their various groupings.

“Diversity is not the problem. The problem is that they keep going round in the same circles over the same issues. The public is not interested in names, surnames, and colours; the public is interested in solutions to specific problems. Instead of solutions, they pile yet more problems on the public from above. That is the problem. They can call themselves whatever they like and spin in the same circles to their hearts’ content. For us as the governing party, that is entirely acceptable, welcome, even, because the public can see exactly what a thoroughly unserious force we are dealing with,” Makhashvili noted.

He further observed that the same faces keep revolving in the same circles.

“The same names, in different colours and under different political labels, are quite transparently trying to mislead the public, as though something new had happened, as though they were doing something new. Now they have invented a new mantra: apparently, they must go out into the regions. Has it only just occurred to them to go out into the regions? Instead of gadding about in foreign capitals, they should have gone to the regions long ago, when there were elections, and it was the views of the Georgian people, not foreign officials, that mattered. But even that is illusory and false. They will receive the appropriate response from the public accordingly. Today, this was cobbled together; tomorrow, they will announce yet another new alliance. A month from now, they will announce something new again, and so they will keep going round in the same circles. Then the elections will take place, they will lose again, and once again they will blame either the government or the people. Let them look for the source of that defeat, which they have tasted many times before and will taste many times again, in their own decisions and their own conduct,” Makhashvili stated.