"On November 8, at 8 PM, let's start the victory of liberty from Liberty Square!" - Nika Melia, the chairman of the "National Movement" speaks about the upcoming protest at the special briefing held at the party office.
He says that the ultimatum given to the government by the opposition has expired and "Dream" did not take the third president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, to a civilian clinic. Accordingly, the opposition will hold a large-scale rally tomorrow.
We offer Nika Melia's statement unchanged:
I want to address you Georgian patriots, supporters of our homeland! The deadline given to the government has expired. Ivanishvili's regime has not overturned the death sentence of the country's third president, Mikheil Saakashvili, and intends to complete his execution!
I want to declare and promise on behalf of myself and my friends that this will not happen. We will save the dignity of this country, yes, I think the dignity of the country will not be protected if we kill the third president of Georgia!
Today, Saakashvili's captivity is the most visible example of Georgia standing at a historical crossroads - the West or Russia. Western Georgia demands Saakashvili's freedom, while Russian Georgia, we see, is happy with his captivity and is waiting for his death!
That is why, yes, the survival of the third president of the country today runs through our historic line of choice - whether we choose the West or Russia!
Yes, the historical line has been drawn - will we be able to look our descendants in the eyes properly and without shame, if, with our participation, one of the darkest pages in the history of our homeland will be written! Something that we will not allow! Yes, the survival of the third president of the country is a symbol of defeating Ivanishvili's darkness and victory of Georgia's bright future!
Yes, today all this is going to save Saakashvili. Whether we like him or not, whether we support him or not, in any circumstance, we must realize that such is the case.
Our fight is final and decisive. We have no other choice but to win. All lines are crossed and there is a risk of resembling an authoritarian banana republic drowning in poverty and being a mere vassal and doer of Russia's will! It is all unfolding in front of us.
We are fighting for the stolen elections and for the return of the captured state! And this fight is also universal, not the work of one party, but of all honest citizens!
We fight for the chance of our future generations to not have a childhood growing up in an environment of confrontation, enmity, hatred. But instead for people of different views and tastes to have the opportunity to live with cooperation, friendship, and without fear.
We are fighting to ensure that, after 30 years, we are no longer wiretapped, that we are no longer threatened, that we are not forced to vote, that impoverished people are not bribed for two pennies. For journalists to not be killed by savages in the middle of Tbilisi, for European flags not to be burned.
We are fighting even for the mother of 4 children, Elene Khoshtaria, not to go on a hunger strike, to explain to the mad authorities that everyone has the right to treatment. And we will fight to the end for all this. We are fighting for Georgia to be a worthy member of the Western family and not be taken over by Russia!
We are fighting for the court not to be a slave clan! That young people did not run away from the country every day! For people to not lose their jobs every day!
Everyone, tomorrow, at Liberty Square! On November 8, at 8 PM, let's start the victory of liberty from Liberty Square! - says Nika Melia.