"People are building a new state on Rustaveli Avenue. Everything else is a parallel process. By this, I mean the sanctions from Washington, Brussels, and Strasbourg. This will not stop until elections are announced and new democratic forces come to power," said Nika Melia, one of the leaders of the "Coalition for Change," in an interview with InterpressNews on Rustaveli Avenue, where a protest is currently taking place.

Melia emphasized that the new government that comes to power will be under intense scrutiny from civil society, which, in his view, "will neither allow mistakes to be made nor forgive those that are made."

"I don't know if this ongoing daily process should even be called a protest. In my opinion, this is a new order that has shattered all the negative myths historically associated with Georgians—that they are talented but lazy, undisciplined, unambitious, and so on. It has become clear that this is not true. It is evident that a new Georgian civil society is being built, and accordingly, a new Georgian state is being constructed.

Various governments over different periods have laid more or less significant bricks in the process of state-building, but these bricks were never properly connected, and the mortar wasn't strong enough. Now, a different level of process is underway—construction that will withstand both history and time. People are building a new state on Rustaveli Avenue. Everything else is secondary to this.

I refer to the sanctions imposed on various individuals under Ivanishvili's regime from Washington, Brussels, and Strasbourg. None of this will stop until elections are held and new democratic forces come to power. These forces will be under intense scrutiny from civil society in the future. They will neither be allowed to make mistakes nor be forgiven for any they do make, in case opportunists or wrongdoers come to power in the future," Melia stated to InterpressNews.