Opposition Parties Vow Peaceful Resistance Until Victory in Joint Statement
By Liza Mchedlidze
Monday, November 10, 2025
Georgia's main opposition parties have released a joint statement condemning what they describe as the "intensification of political persecution" under Bidzina Ivanishvili's rule, vowing that such actions "will only strengthen our society's resistance."
"The intensification of political persecution by Ivanishvili's criminal regime will only strengthen our society's resistance, especially since political prisoners and their family members have shown an example of uncompromising firmness against evil," reads the statement, signed by Ahali, Girchi - More Freedom, Droa, the National-Democratic Party, European Georgia, Freedom Square, and Federalists.
According to the signatories, the ruling Georgian Dream party is using the country's education, healthcare, and social assistance systems as instruments of control to maintain its grip on power, tightening administrative oversight and repression in the process.
The statement accuses Georgian Dream of hypocrisy - portraying itself as a defender of traditional and family values while "through false testimony and fabricated cases, separating parents from children, wives from husbands, sisters from brothers for years and condemning families to prolonged separation."
Opposition parties also blame Ivanishvili's government for "deepening every problem facing the country," saying corruption, nepotism, and self-enrichment at the expense of citizens through the misuse of office are the lifestyle of regime representatives." They claim this approach has left Georgia "drifting further from the free world" and "alone before the enemy, Russia, which poses an existential threat to our statehood and independence."
They further argue that the government's aim is "to take the state away from Georgian citizens completely, so it can continue to plunder our soldiers, teachers, pensioners, children, and students with impunity."
Despite these alleged efforts, the parties say, "it has not been able to crush the people's legitimate protest."
"The regime no longer has popular, international, or moral legitimacy to govern and therefore rests entirely on lies and repression," the statement continues.
While acknowledging their political differences, the opposition parties stress that they are united by one common goal: "by peaceful resistance to replace the corrupt criminal regime that robs the people, to free unjustly detained writers, doctors, students, actors and politicians; to save Georgia's independence and statehood; and to reclaim our natural historical place in the Euro-Atlantic family."
They conclude by affirming their commitment to resist repression and restore power to the public.
"Over the past year, the Georgian people, through brave and consistent struggle, have proven they deserve to live in a just, secure, and free country and will not allow the Constitution to be violated. Ivanishvili's repressions will not prevail over their will.
We, the democratic political parties, will fight to the end to return power to those who truly own it - the Georgian people.
Fight to the end, until victory!" concludes the statement.
The announcement noted that following the start of hostilities in Ukraine, the Georgian government adopted a policy of not imposing economic sanctions against the aggressor country to avoid a potential military conflict. It contends that in response, certain opposition leaders "acted to the detriment of Georgia's state interests" by seeking to create a pretext for international sanctions. They allegedly did this by providing representatives of foreign states with information regarding oil imports and "real or fabricated" defense sector situations, as well as spreading what the office claims was "false information."
