“Bringing the issue of local elections onto the agenda seven months in advance is the conscious or unconscious implementation of Bidzina’s scenario!” – wrote Mamuka Khazaradze, leader of the “Lelo – Strong Georgia” coalition, on social media.

According to Khazaradze, the demand remains the same – “to achieve new elections and the release of political prisoners!”

“I repeat once again – bringing the issue of local elections onto the agenda seven months in advance is the conscious or unconscious implementation of Bidzina’s scenario!

This is an admission that the opposition cannot achieve new elections.

This is an admission that you cannot free prisoners of conscience before October.

This means that the entire media space and public attention have been diverted toward this topic.

Our demand remains the same – to achieve new elections and the release of political prisoners!

This is the main issue today!” – Khazaradze wrote on social media.