Nika Melia, leader of the UNM and chairman of the party, responds to the statements that followed his briefing yesterday.
Melia writes that now is the right time to demand early elections, because Ivanishvili knows that by 2024 a hundred thousand more Georgians will leave Georgia:
"We demanded early elections and got an interesting picture, to say the least.
If you listen to these people, we have a situation where everything is for the benefit of Bidzina- both action and inaction, struggle and surrender, demanding elections and waiting for elections.
I mean, what are they telling us? you go straight you die, you go left you die, you go right, you will die. That is, you will die everywhere.
However, the situation now is that waiting is the death of Georgia's European future!
Early elections are vital!
Waiting until 2024 is the Russian dream. They know for a fact that a hundred thousand more Georgians will leave Georgia before 2024. And these hundreds of thousands of Georgians are dissatisfied with the current situation in Georgia and are therefore in opposition.
First of all, I hope for the reasonable choice of the Georgian people, and then I hope for my team and myself.
We will fight for whoever we think will win, and we will convince everyone who wants to win," Melia writes.