Today we forced the government and the regime to make the statement they made

According to Nika Melia, Chairman of the United National Movement, if the government wanted to take Mikheil Saakashvili to the Gori military hospital, the third president would not have been transferred from the Rustavi prison to the Gldani medical facility to begin with.

As Melia noted in his speech at the rally in front of the Parliament, the ruling team was forced to make an offer to Mikheil Saakashvili because of the citizens' protest.

"If these people wanted to bring him to the Gori hospital they would not have transferred him from the Rustavi prison to Gldani, where there were not even basic medical facilities, and this was confirmed by three different councils that employed medical workers but your struggle, your non-violent struggle led to the fact that the international community is practically making statements in support of Mikheil Saakashvili and for the freedom and independence of this country.

If it hadn't been for this nonviolent struggle, no statement would have been made today. This is what the Georgian Dream wanted, to drag us into violent processes, and these violent processes to be conducted at a time when the Georgian Dream was humiliated in the eyes of the world and the local society. All the moral high ground is on the side of the society, and the oligarchs have nothing left but people with guns. They were looking for an argument, an excuse, how to use force and how to crush the protest.