“The eight-point plan’s main idea is that we are the majority who don’t support the government, and this fragmented majority must unite,” declared Paata Manjgaladze, member of the Strategy Aghmashenebeli party.

According to Manjgaladze, there are four issues around which all parties are uniting: regime change, new parliamentary elections, the release of prisoners of conscience, and the European path.

“Giorgi Vashadze’s eight-point plan isn’t solely his; Zura Japaridze also worked on it. The main idea is that we are the majority who don’t support the government, and it’s essential to unite this fragmented, scattered majority, at least a large portion of it. There are concrete steps to unite under one brand and achieve ultimate victory through specific measures and eight points. This means the government must call new parliamentary elections under new rules. Local elections do not exist for us; it’s a farce, and our colleagues make serious mistakes by participating in it.

As for the unity, Georgia’s history doesn’t begin on October 4 or with a farce. We all need each other; we’ll do everything to prevent the regime from exploiting our fragmentation. You know the old formula, divide and conquer, and we must not give Ivanishvili that chance.

There are four main issues we are uniting around: first, this regime must change; second, new parliamentary elections must be called under new rules; third, all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience must be released; fourth, our European path, where protection and security are guaranteed. We are all one around these issues, whether parties participate in elections or not,” Manjgaladze stated.

For context, Strategy Aghmashenebeli leader Giorgi Vashadze published an eight-point plan on social media on 26 July, describing it as a coherent set of reasoned steps to achieve victory. The eight-point plan envisages “uniting political parties, civil groups and Salome Zourabichvili under a common brand.”