The Chairperson of the United National Movement, Tina Bokuchava, calls on the judges of the Constitutional Court of Georgia not to accept the lawsuit to ban the parties and to declare it inadmissible.

As Bokuchava stated at the briefing, the lawsuit of the Georgian Dream is totally unfounded and fails to meet the minimum standard of proof.

“The public is aware that on October 31 of this year, 88 self-proclaimed members of parliament filed a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court of Georgia demanding the abolition of the United National Movement and two other political parties. With today's statement, we would like to appeal to the judges of the Constitutional Court of Georgia not to accept this shameful lawsuit and to declare it inadmissible, since it is totally unfounded, fails to meet the minimum standard of proof, and there is no real connection between the subject of the dispute and the provisions of the Constitution. The subject of the dispute presented in the lawsuit is political and anti-constitutional. Its real goal is to destroy democratic order in Georgia and establish a one-party dictatorship in the country. Against the backdrop of the regime's pressure, accepting such an unfounded lawsuit, the only evidence of which is the footnotes of the illegitimate, anti-constitutional conclusion of the illegitimate parliamentary treason commission, is tantamount to the abolition not of any party, but of the Constitutional Court itself. We all know the purpose of the treason commission of the second-generation Soviet executioner, Tea Tsulukiani, which was created - to rewrite the recent history of Georgia according to the Russian version, destroy opposition parties and suppress pluralist democracy in Georgia. The treason commission itself is unconstitutional, as is its conclusion, since its formation was carried out in gross violation of the Constitution,” Bokuchava said.

According to her, if the court accepts the lawsuit, the National Movement will demand that the session not be held without an oral hearing.

“If the judges of the Constitutional Court lack the courage and professional dignity to recognize such a shameful lawsuit as inadmissible due to pressure from the regime, we demand that at least the regulatory session not be held without an oral hearing, so that we can properly present the position of the party and its hundreds of thousands of supporters. We must understand that this lawsuit does not concern only the National Movement. It concerns hundreds of thousands of citizens of Georgia,” Bokuchava said.

For information, 88 Members of Parliament of Georgia are appealing to the Constitutional Court of Georgia to ban the activities of 3 political parties (Unity - National Movement, Coalition for Change Gvaramia Melia Girchi Droa, Strong Georgia - Lelo, For People, For Freedom!).

The constitutional lawsuit states that the Constitution of Georgia considers inadmissible the creation and activities of a political party the goal of which is to overthrow or violently change the constitutional order of Georgia, encroach on the country's independence, violate its territorial integrity, or which is engaged in propaganda for war or violence, incites national, ethnic, sectarian, religious or social strife. In addition, according to the lawsuit, the purpose of the aforementioned unconstitutional activity of a political party may be evident both from the statutes of this political party or its public statements, as well as from its behavior and actions committed by it.