“On November 10, 2025, the United National Movement (UNM) applied to the Constitutional Court of Georgia, challenging the constitutionality of the so-called ‘Treason Commission’, established under the chairmanship of MP Tsulukiani by what the party describes as Georgian Dream’s illegitimate parliament. The officially stated purpose of that commission was precisely to prepare the legal groundwork for banning political parties. The lawsuit subsequently filed in the Constitutional Court by the Georgian Dream majority of that same illegitimate parliament, seeking the political parties’ ban, is entirely based on the conclusions of this commission,” the United National Movement stated in a statement.

As the statement reads, “the First Board of the Constitutional Court has refused to fulfil its fundamental duty and has once again encouraged Georgian Dream’s disregard for constitutional principles and its arbitrary exercise of power.”

“We called upon the Constitutional Court to assess the constitutionality of granting parliament’s investigative commission unlimited authority over political parties. The ruling of the Constitutional Court of Georgia dated March 26, 2026 (Case No. 1915) serves as a textbook example of how a court, amidst an intense political crisis, can wield legal formalism as a tool to sidestep accountability. The Constitutional Court declined to subject the potential exercise of this parliamentary function to constitutional scrutiny, ruling that it may be exercised arbitrarily and repressively. This means that the Constitutional Court has effectively granted Georgian Dream unlimited authority to subject any political party, group, or organisation to its investigative mechanisms in complete disregard of constitutional principles, to compel their members to appear under threat of arrest, to demand explanations for the motives and reasoning behind political decisions taken, and thereby to lay the groundwork for their political persecution. We firmly believe that the First Board of the Constitutional Court has abdicated its fundamental responsibilities, thereby emboldening the Georgian Dream’s disregard for constitutional principles and its descent into lawlessness. By this decision, the Court has pre-emptively prepared the ground for banning political parties, and with them, political pluralism in this country, based on the conclusions drawn by Tsulukiani’s ‘Treason Commission,'” the United National Movement’s statement reads.

The statement further notes that “the Constitutional Court examined this matter of the gravest importance without oral hearings, behind closed doors.”

“It must also be borne in mind that such a critically important issue, one directly connected to the consolidation of autocracy in this country, was considered by the Constitutional Court in secret, without any oral hearing whatsoever. As a result, we were denied the opportunity to hear, in open proceedings, the legal justifications offered by representatives of an illegitimate parliament, and to properly defend our vitally important interests as a political party, a state of affairs that is itself a violation of the principles of fair procedure. We once again demand that the question of the admissibility of the party ban lawsuit be decided based on oral hearings, and that the Constitutional Court should not, once more, issue its ruling through a closed process,” the United National Movement’s statement concludes.