“They announced a door-to-door campaign, and it ended up being chair to chair. They were meeting in small rooms with members of their own parties. In the end, it was simply a process in which they were talking to one another,” said the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, responding to a question about the Opposition Alliance.

According to Papuashvili, “every ambassador who believes they can bring about a change of government in Georgia through these forces, bypassing democracy, must understand exactly who they are dealing with.”

“Equally, every party that occupies itself going chair to chair must understand that for as long as they are aligned with foreign agendas and busy currying favour with others, they should harbour no hope of success in Georgia,” Papuashvili declared.

Asked whether the Opposition Alliance’s national mobilisation on a door-to-door basis had actually materialised, Papuashvili remarked:

“God forbid that any mobilisation of traitors should take place in Georgia. These are people who betray Georgia’s national interest and move against our own people. It is simply inconceivable that a country which, not long ago, came together in such force to bid farewell to the Patriarch, should now witness a mobilisation around those who would betray it.”