“The intensification of political persecution by Ivanishvili’s criminal regime will only strengthen our society’s resistance, especially since political prisoners and their family members have shown an example of uncompromising firmness against evil,” reads a joint statement issued by opposition parties, signed by “New,” “Girchi — More Freedom,” “It’s Time,” the National‑Democratic Party, “European Georgia,” “Freedom Square,” and the “Federalists.”

As the statement says, Georgian Dream is trying to use the country’s education, healthcare and social assistance systems to preserve its power, and for that purpose it is increasing administrative control and repression.

Georgian Dream presents itself as the defender of traditional Georgian values and family values while, through false testimony and fabricated cases, separating parents from children, wives from husbands, sisters from brothers for years and condemning families to prolonged separation.

Ivanishvili’s regime has deepened every problem facing the country: by its own admission, corruption and enrichment at the expense of citizens through the misuse of office are the lifestyle of regime representatives. As a result of its deliberate policy, Georgia is drifting further from the free world and is being left alone before the enemy, Russia — which poses an existential threat to our statehood and independence.

The regime seeks to use education, healthcare and social assistance not for the welfare of Georgian citizens but to hold on to power, and it is increasing administrative control and repression to that end.

Its aim is to take the state away from Georgian citizens completely, so it can continue to plunder our soldiers, teachers, pensioners, children, and students with impunity.

Despite all these attempts, it has not been able to crush the people’s legitimate protest.

The regime no longer has popular, international, or moral legitimacy to govern and therefore rests entirely on lies and repression.

There are many differences among us, but we are united by a single common task: by peaceful struggle to replace the corrupt criminal regime that robs the people, to free unjustly detained writers, doctors, students, actors and politicians; to save Georgia’s independence and statehood; and to reclaim our natural historical place in the Euro‑Atlantic family.

Over the past year, the Georgian people, through brave and consistent struggle, have proven they deserve to live in a just, secure, and free country and will not allow the Constitution to be violated. Ivanishvili’s repressions will not prevail over their will.

We, the democratic political parties, will fight to the end to return power to those who truly own it — the Georgian people.

Fight to the end, until victory!” the opposition parties’ statement concludes.