In fact, the opposition is quite strong - I have no ambition to create a political party, to be someone's competitor tomorrow, and everyone should understand this. Therefore, I may be more acceptable to everyone, as a mediator, coordinator and a voice of the public outside, which will be more difficult for a political party leader because he represents his party vision, - the fifth President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, stated on Radio Palitra.

She spoke about the importance of opposition unity and noted that it is important to create a political alternative.

"The main thing is to create a political alternative so that the public and partners can see what will happen and who will be responsible for stability when this regime falls or goes to the elections, because they will calculate, "I might win these elections." Whoever asks what the plan is - if you have made a plan, you should know the next stage to which you have to respond, and we do not know what the next stage will be. It seems that this regime is not very stable and has shifted to hysterical actions, sometimes new laws every day, sometimes three-hour monologues on television, etc. It does not give us the feeling of a solid and stable regime, their internal conflicts "bring me money" - in fact, a regime that has completely shifted to money...

The main obstacle is that neither society nor our partners can see that there is some core that is competently or politically ready to take responsibility for this transitional, very difficult period. The regime is preventing the formation of this core,” Zurabishvili said.

She answered the question: whether she is participating in the negotiations that concern the creation of opposition unity.

“First of all, I have initiated these negotiations several times. I am the initiator of the charter that still remains, and I think there is no other alternative, a unifier about what that transitional period should be and this is important. Beyond that, it is clear that the parties will have their own vision, what a real education reform should be, what one of the forms of economic growth should be, this is the party diversity that needs to be created in this country and on which I hope that we will hear real debates, this is my real dream, multi-party, real debates and not gossiping about each other, until then we need a front of resistance. Negotiations on this are going on sometimes with me, sometimes among each other and sometimes in another format,” - Zurabishvili said, noting that "in reality, the opposition is standing quite firmly."

According to her, she does not intend to create a political party.

"I cannot create a political party, this time is over for me. I cannot create a political party today. My role is different, to be a kind of institutional representative of the state for the unity. Precisely because I do not have the ambition to create a political party, to be someone's competitor tomorrow, and everyone should understand this, therefore I may be more acceptable to everyone, as a mediator, coordinator and a voice of the public outside, which will be more difficult for a political party leader because he represents his party vision," - Salome Zurabishvili said.

As for other issues, Salome Zurabishvili also spoke about the debates.

"We see how the parliamentary debates are developing, between athletes and non-scientists, there is no substantive debate. I will not comment on what type of opposition there is [in parliament]. I am saying that there is no real substantive debate in the committees, there hasn't been for a long time and probably never will be in a one-party parliament. No matter what the names are, we have a one-party parliament today and the prime minister's such a far-fetched proposal that "well, let's have a debate" is because they need to somehow lighten the picture from this isolation and one-party situation. It is difficult to say exactly what the purpose (of the debate) serves, but it is to achieve their goal. There is no chance to achieve anything in a one-hour debate with the prime minister, who is not an expert in the field. It would be different to open the public broadcaster, which is the public demand, and which, as far as I know, received some remarks from the European Broadcasting Organization. They should open a free space thematically - the public, experts, non-experts, parents, students, everyone should be able to discuss this and public opinion could be formed. This could be a kind of step towards a real discussion. Everything else is figure skating,” Zurabishvili said.

According to her, the fact that part of the opposition participates in the debates and part does not participate is one of the goals - to divide the opposition.

“They know this very well. This is an old technology that, at some point, every regime uses,” Zurabishvili said.