Georgia needs a broad consensus and a big reset. Strength in unity! - Mikheil Saakashvili's address to the public
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GAIN YOUR FREEDOM TOGETHER WITH US!
"Ivanishvili is now in a catastrophic situation," the third president said in a statement posted on his Facebook page.
Mikheil Saakashvili writes that the oligarch is trying to distract public attention from two main topics - early elections and his freedom..
We offer Michael Saakashvili's address unchanged:
"The big reset.
Ivanishvili is now in a catastrophic situation - the highest price rise in Georgia's history, the highest bank loan repayments, the most intensive outflow of the labour force, almost lost in the last three elections. Total delegitimisation.
Support shrunk to the minimum and an opposition that is more united than ever. Most importantly, it is also the regime's greatest international isolation and harsher criticism than in any period since independence.
What is Ivanishvili doing? - He is reinforcing punitive squads, encouraging criminality and trying to divert attention from two main topics: snap elections and my freedom, by shoehorning in smaller topics and issues. He tries to bring the same confusion about the snap elections, I introduced the 2% threshold, and in my case, hospitalisation. He has also recruited "experts" whose main objective is to force the idea that the subject of Saakashvili is interfering with the main opposition agenda. Now his main ally is the New Year's Eve pork and the Satsivi and the diversion of people to these topics. In doing so, he wants to lower the temperature and introduce frustration and passivity. At the same time he is preparing to arrest Gvaramia, Khazaradze and close the media.
What should we answer? - First, we should not be deceived by moving from the core direction. Secondly, we should explain to people what we agree on. In my opinion, it is decentralisation, true local governance and freedom - freedom of choice, judiciary, prosecution, media and freedom from violence.
We need constant pockets of local resistance, but always with specific objectives, with two main goals - elections and an end to political persecution.
We are preparing for very big rally in December, to make people breathe a sigh of relief. Georgia needs a broad consensus and a big reset. Strength in unity! ", Mikhail Saakashvili's address reads.
