“Achieving any success together with Saakashvili is a spoiled dream,” Davit Usupashvili, leader of the Development Movement party, said. According to him, the Development Movement aims to defeat the “Georgian Dream”, but the members of the movement do not plan to participate in any protest rally together with ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili.

“I know the plans of the Development Movement. We are preparing for the parliamentary elections and we know it well that achieving any success together with Saakashvili is a spoiled dream.

The last protest rally, we have participated in together with Saakashvili, was November of 2003, which was called the “Roses’ Revolution.” 15 years have passed I have not participated in any rally together with him and I do not intend to,” Usupashvili said.

Sandra Roelofs, the mayoral candidate of the “United Opposition'' in Zugdidi municipality, said they plan to defeat Ivanishvili's regime with a “protest wave. “