According to Zurab (Girchi) Japaridze, the leader of the Girchi-More Freedom party, today the opposition is not in good shape, although it is exaggerated to say that it is "destroyed".

In particular, Japaridze spoke in the Polit-Kalaki program in the context of Bidzina Ivanishvili's return to politics and noted that the opposition is not in a shape that could be perceived by Ivanishvili as a threat. On the contrary, Japaridze thinks that Ivanishvili saw the danger in his own team.

At the same time, according to Zurab Japaridze, in general terms, "the opposition does not suffer from an incurable plague", although according to him, the perception is that the opposition seems weak, which Japaridze connects to several factors.

"I think that the opposition is not in the good shape, at least during the last months, the opposition is not in a shape that could be perceived by Ivanishvili as a threat, but maybe he saw the danger in his team - the team was disintegrating... or he saw the danger that he would lose the elections. It is exaggerated to say that "the opposition is destroyed", in reality it is not so. In many cases, people measure the activity of the opposition by whether there are numerous demonstrations on the street. There has been nothing in this part for the last few months and this also creates this impression. In addition to the swearing and cursing of each other by the opposition parties, everyone is trying to establish themselves, to show their uniqueness, and this also affects their reputation. Well, in general, if you "zoom out" and look from the side, the opposition does not have any kind of incurable plague that it didn't had before, nothing like that is happening. The perception is that the opposition seems weaker because they don't have rallies and there are no protests," he said.

In addition, according to Japaridze, two factors are necessary for the opposition to succeed in the elections: mobilization of additional voters and consolidation of forces.

"We have a conversation with everyone we can talk to.. The consolidation of forces is necessary. In addition, it is necessary to bring new people [to the elections]. If we look at the history, Ivanishvili did the same in 2012. As a standard, about 1,900,000 people go to the parliamentary elections, Ivanishvili managed to bring 2,200,000 people in 2012. The National Movement also spent no less money on mobilizing votes, extortion, and," he noted.

According to him, the most important thing for success is to create confidence in voters, although Japaridze admits that in the end, people's confidence in the existing political class, including him, is less.

"Actually, the main problem I see is that there is no trust. There are small segments that have confidence in political leaders, but overall confidence that the opposition can win is low. Trust in the current political class, including myself, is ultimately low. I know the only remedy is to talk honestly about everything - problems, the future, which I can't see yet," Japaridze added.

In addition, according to Japaridze, "disinformation and blackmail work fantastically" against him specifically and the opposition in general, which is difficult to deal with.