Roman Gotsiridze: Melia's party will be one of the serious opposition parties, a serious player is emerging who will strengthen the creation of the number one political block - I imagine myself as one of the parts of such a center

Melia's party will be one of the serious opposition parties, a serious player is emerging who will strengthen the creation of the number one political union - I imagine myself as one of the parts of such a center, EuroOptimists MP Roman Gotsiridze said about this.

According to him, Melia's move was the only correct decision.

"The only way to ease this crisis was this very decision. As for the founding of the party by Nika Melia and his associates, it will be one of the serious opposition parties and it will have the support of not only the traditional voters of the National Movement, a large number of whom are not pleased by the Natio­nal Movement in today's situation, but also of the voters who were focused on a national and liberal political force such as the Natio­nal Movement at one time, but for various reasons did not want to vote for it. This also applies to a large part of the youth. Nika Melia can be the gatherer of the electorate of this type, and he is already a serious player on the opposition flank in the sense that he will strengthen the creation of the main political center, the main opposition force, the number one political bloc in the future, which will have more potential than the Natio­nal Movement has today. In such a case, a change of government is possible," said Gotsiridze.

When asked whether he and Khatia Dekanoidze may be seen together with Nika Melia, Gotsiridze answered that he sees himself as part of the main opposition center, however, no one knows what will happen in the future and they have not discussed it with Nika Melia.

"I have been talking for half a year that the main opposition center should be created, I imagined myself as one of the parts of this big political center. What will happen in the future, no one knows yet, neither Khatia and I have talked about it, nor with Nika, so we will observe the processes. The main thing is that the votes of the opposition should not be lost, and that the union of the opposition should take such a structure that it can make a significant contribution to the defeat of Georgian Dream", - said Gotsiridze.

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