"Georgian Dream" is using criminal gangs to retaliate against its opponents, Badri Japaridze, one of the leaders of the "Strong Georgia" coalition, told the "PalitraNews" program on "Political Space".

According to Japaridze, Ivanishvili thought he would suppress the protest with violence, as it worked in Russia and Belarus, however, he got a completely different picture.

As he mentioned, Georgians do not avoid the danger of violence from the government.

"We have accepted the situation when the government has gone beyond the framework of the law, and we are now living in a situation where criminal gangs are running rampant in the country without any punishment, and using criminal gangs to retaliate against opponents by "Georgian Dream".

When there is such a situation in the country, the task of politicians is to find a solution that will bring the situation back within the framework of the law, to publicize this solution, so that our fellow citizens know clearly where the way to relieve this crisis is. The only way out of this situation is to hold new, free and fair elections.

Why should Irakli Kobakhidze make this statement, we are stopping the negotiations - because whoever is giving him the instructions, his task was not to reconcile the society or to find a solution to the situation, his task is to receive direct support from Putin. Half an hour after Kobakhidze's statement, Putin's praise for them appears - this is the main reward for Ivanishvili. They thought that because the people did not come out on the streets because of the rigging of the elections, they would roll it over, they received direct support from Putin, and here they made a big mistake, because this was really the straw that filled the bottle of patience of our fellow citizens, and they took to the streets for a peaceful protest.

This was so unexpected for the "Georgian Dream" that it lost its balance and they deliberately began to physically retaliate against people. Ivanishvili makes a big mistake here as well. He saw that the intimidation of people worked in Russia, the protests in Belarus were also suppressed by intimidation and violence, and he thought it would work here as well. This does not work in Georgia. These people are not running away from the danger of violence from the government, they are still standing on the street. The more violence there was towards the participants of the rally, the more people came out the next day," said Badri Japaridze.