We don't need toasts in the fight against the regime, citizens need clarity - Zurabishvili should have said what she had to say, clearly, - this is how Ana Tsitlidze, one of the leaders of the United National Movement, assesses the speech of the fifth President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, at yesterday's rally.

According to Tsitlidze, Salome Zurabishvili should have said that participation in local self-government elections is inadmissible.

“We do not need toasts in the fight against the regime. Georgian citizens need clarity. There is only one way here, and there are no two ways. The only way to overthrow the regime is to not cooperate with the regime. That is why I think that Salome Zurabishvili should have said what she had to say to the citizens of Georgia clearly and unambiguously. She should have said that participation in the so-called elections, in fact, in a special operation, is unacceptable and means playing by the rules of Bidzina Ivanishvili’s game. She should have said that one of the main ways to increase the protest mood in this country and get even more people on the streets is precisely an active boycott campaign. This is what I, and I am sure that many Georgian citizens who stood at the rally yesterday, expected from Salome Zurabishvili,” Tsitlidze said.

Tsitlidze also responded to the statement of Elene Khoshtaria, one of the leaders of the Coalition for Change, according to which she will end her hunger strike if the opposition agrees and does not participate in the elections. According to Tsitlidze, Khoshtaria’s hunger strike “is a mirror to all those people who still imagine that cooperation with the regime is possible according to the rules of the regime’s game.”

As for the answer to the question of what Tsitlidze would say about the fact that the Gakharia for Georgia party and the Lelo team have not changed their position regarding participation in the local self-government elections, Tsitlidze added that it is not serious if Gakharia is planning to win Tbilisi from Berlin.