We are entering a new feudalism with its authoritarian, totalitarian features. The "Georgian Dream" wants such a Georgia because they want to extend their monopoly on finance and power, said David Darakhvelidze, professor at Ilia State University and former member of parliament, in an interview with the TV channel "PalitraNews."

He commented on the "Georgian Dream" plans to appeal to the Constitutional Court based on the conclusion of the newly formed investigative commission in parliament regarding the unconstitutional nature of the "National Movement" and its satellite parties.

According to Darakhvelidze, the "Georgian Dream" is announcing that there will be a "one-party system" and that this one-party system will include some "satellite parties" that the government will create with its own hands.

“This is the logical continuation of the spirit this party [‘Georgian Dream’] had. For them, democracy, the rule of law, and the rights of individuals, minorities, and the opposition mean nothing. Their dismissive attitude towards liberal ideology manifests and materializes precisely in this. This is ultimately a declaration that we are fighting these values—human rights, the rule of law, international law, and the respect for democratic institutions and procedures. All of this is collapsing, being denied, and discarded. We are already standing in the conditions of formalized authoritarianism; the signs were always there, but this had to be consolidated in words, revealed in specific decisions, and now we are witnessing this process—welcome to the new, absolutely undemocratic Georgia, for all of us!

If this is implemented, there will be two choices left—you either prepare for repression or leave the country. Such a reality is being created. It has been practically announced that there will be a one-party system, and within this one-party system, there will be satellite parties that the government will create. For example, such a system exists in China. In China, apart from the Communist Party, there are some small parties that play a decorative role. This is the reality we will find ourselves in.

It is still strange that they are trying to use legal procedures. For example, the commission's powers have been expanded, and then they will involve the Constitutional Court. All of this is a façade and a game; there is no real spirit of the rule of law behind it because these institutions are essentially under the control of the oligarch and his entourage. They are still playing with legal words. The reality is that we are entering a new feudalism with its authoritarian, totalitarian features. They want such a Georgia because they want to extend their monopoly on finance and power. Naturally, they will take more steps against political parties."

Darakhvelidze added that if the "Georgian Dream" implements the plans it has announced, "oppositional political leaders will either be imprisoned or expelled from the country."

“If they succeed, I see political leaders either imprisoned or expelled from the country. No other logical conclusion can be made in light of these statements. I don’t know if Mdinaradze has read any Bolshevik or Goebbels texts, but he is clearly following their lead. How they structure sentences may be part of this heritage or partly influenced by Kremlin advice on how to handle the opposition, how to accuse opponents of the unimaginable. In Georgian culture, there is a well-established metaphor—the ‘tunnel from Bombai to London.’ Everything that ‘Georgian Dream’ is doing, particularly what Mdinaradze is saying, fits into the logic of this metaphor,” Darakhvelidze concluded.