“How can you call others ‘Nazis’ [a reference to members of the United National Movement] when there are no longer as many former UNM members left in the UNM itself as there are today transferred, encouraged, and promoted within Georgian Dream? In reality, you are not the ones fighting the UNM — we are!” — said Giorgi Sharashidze, an MP from the "Gakharia for Georgia" party, during his speech at a parliamentary plenary session.

According to him, Georgian Dream does not need a weakened and defunct UNM, because “they can no longer properly play the role of a scarecrow.”

He also stated that the events of October 4 were a provocation staged jointly by Georgian Dream and the UNM, which the authorities failed to prevent in order to maintain power, thereby putting the country at risk.

“How can you call others ‘Nazis,’ when, putting everything else aside, there are no longer as many former UNM members left in the party itself as there are today transferred, encouraged, and promoted within Georgian Dream? To give a recent example, on November 7 it was 18 years since the UNM brutally assaulted citizens on the streets of Tbilisi, used force to shut down the broadcasting of Imedi TV, and 18 years later you now have, for a third term, as the Mayor of Tbilisi, a man who remained a supporter of Saakashvili and the UNM even after that horrific crackdown. You have a Minister of Education who, during that very period, was the deputy and right-hand man of the head of the UNM’s notoriously harsh penitentiary system — a man who thinks he can evade responsibility for the prison riot by claiming he was on vacation at the time. He is deeply mistaken! I won’t continue the list, because neither my allotted time nor that of my fellow party members would be enough to name all the former UNM members sitting in this chamber and in the government.

But the most important reason you are no longer different from the UNM is that you have not only refused to reject but have fully absorbed and continued the violence, injustice, and corruption institutionalized by the UNM regime.

As for October 4 — you don’t want the people to know the truth about that day. The truth is that it was a provocation staged by Georgian Dream and the UNM. A provocation you failed to stop, putting the country at risk for the sake of retaining power. And if that’s not true, then explain what your Prime Minister, Mr. Kobakhidze, meant when he said that someone named ‘Anita’ was being paid by Georgian Dream and that senior officials of your government were providing her with classified information. Are we supposed to believe that ‘Anita,’ bribed by Georgian Dream, was planning to overthrow Georgian Dream’s government using Georgian Dream’s own money?

And why haven’t you launched an investigation or questioned Mikheil Saakashvili, who directly accused his own party members of making secret deals with Georgian Dream and claimed that Nika Gvaramia received 40 million from Georgian Dream? So what does that mean — that Georgian Dream was paying Anita to overthrow Georgian Dream and was funding Nika Gvaramia with 40 million to act against Georgian Dream — and after that, you want to convince people that you’re fighting the UNM? In reality, you are not fighting the UNM — we are! You use the UNM and revive them when you need them, because a weakened and vanished UNM can no longer serve as an effective scarecrow.

The most regrettable thing of all is that these pointless political manipulations, which bring nothing of value to the country, are harming Georgia’s real interests. The state is suffering, and the people are left unprotected, while no one in power cares about them,” said Sharashidze.