“We should say honestly that staff policy is not Misha’s strong side,” Gia Baramidze, a member of the United National Movement (UNM) party, wrote on the social network.

Baramidze shared the post by jailed ex-President Saakashvili, who wrote: “UNM cannot fall into a worse state than today; no one can blame me for not trying to save it.”

According to Baramidze, the UNM, which has undergone multiple pressure, cannot trust someone unfamiliar or inexperienced.

Baramidze stressed that President Saakashvili, who “established a modern Georgian state, objectively deserved trust and respect in society.”

Gia Baramidze reiterated his support for Misha as “strong and unwavering,” though noted that staff policy was not Misha’s strong side. He said he welcomed journalist Nanuka Zhorzholiani’s joining the party to “revitalize the UNM and increase its efficiency,” though he had no idea whom President Saakashvili meant in younsgers of Nanuka’s team who had to take over the party leadership.

“The UNM is not a package that some unknown or inexperienced person (age doesn’t matter) can come and take over, and such a large party, which has withstood so much pressure, the ‘leadership” of so many traitors, frightened and disappeared, so-called leaders, and is still the key force in the fight against the regime, we should trust it blindly,” Baramidze said.

However, Gia Baramidze reconfirmed that the UNM team was not against the promotion of youngsters to the leadership positions, bringing the names of Levan Sanikidze, Irakli Pavlenishvili, Igor Narmania, Levan Lhabeishvili,Vaso Urushadze, Ani Tsitlidze, Tatia Nikolaishvili and others as examples.

Giorgi Baramidze underscored that bringing in new people to revitalize the UNM “is not enough” in order to win; the National Movement must become a “more people’s party.”