"On each of your votes, depends if I live, or if I die ... Know that no matter what decision you make, I still love you"

"Know that no matter what decision you make, I still love you and I love my homeland immensely. This love has brought me and this love keeps me alive without food for a whole month," - the third President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili addresses the population. His statement was read by his lawyer, Dimitri Sadzaglishvili, after leaving Rustavi 12th Penitentiary Establishment.

Why am I on hunger strike? Because my voice was silenced by the ban on phone calls, I cannot express my position out loud because I have not been taken to court for a month now. I looked out the window once and the whole floor was sealed off, and they started moving me from another, farther path. Because no legal norms are observed, they made you fear Saakashvili, that he will come and cause chaos, in fact, I came silently, avoided provocation, quietly surrendered and went on a hunger strike in a solitary cell. I did this because I love my people and I do not want anyone to be hurt

For the last two days, two people have been talking about me, Gharibashvili said, that i should die by suicide or be transferred to criminals, and second, Reverend Grigoli was with me, with whom I had an amazing conversation, and he told reporters - the homeland is higher than our personal bitterness and therefore, President Saakashvili To survive and be free to serve his homeland. Together with Reverend Grigoli, we once before served homeland when we rebuilt the Poti Cathedral for the faithful in its old splendor and built a separate theater.

Of course, this time I do not want any position or post, tomorrow you will decide, whether the death sentence publicly announced by Gharibashvili will be executed against me, or if the prophecy of Reverend Gregory that I will still serve our homeland come true.

On each of your votes and participation in the election, depends wether I live or, die. Know that no matter what decision you make, i still love you and my homeland immensely. This love has brought me and this love keeps me alive without food for this whole month," Mikheil Saakashvili said in his address.