Bidzina Ivanishvili's greatest merit is that Georgia survived! Our nation survived and our state survived, - Levan Machavariani, the first deputy chairman of the Georgian Dream faction, wrote on social networks, responding to the statement of Giga Bokeria, the chairman of the Federalists, according to which, "Bidzina Ivanishvili has essentially put the issue of our nation's existence as a state under doubt."

According to Machavariani, today we are proud to be an independent, sovereign and legal state.

“The greatest merit of Bidzina Ivanishvili is that Georgia survived! Our nation survived and our state survived. Systemic torture and rape, surveillance in families’ bedrooms, business racketeering, killing of young people on the streets, oppression of people for having a different opinion have ended.

Today we are proud that we are an independent, sovereign and legal state. We protect our national identity, our identity, traditions and culture.

In these most difficult times, we are maintaining peace and stability. Together with the Georgian people, Bidzina Ivanishvili and his team have made a huge contribution to all of this.

To achieve all of this, we have gone through a very difficult battle with internal and external enemies, this battle is not over yet. However, as long as the Georgian people stand by us like this, we will not retreat a single step, we will be able to preserve and develop this achievement. The guarantee of all this is Georgian Dream under Bidzina Ivanishvili’s leadership.

We are definitely not perfect, there are things that need to be fixed, there are things that need to be done even better.

However, what I have listed above is truly the merit of our team and I think everyone should appreciate it," Machavariani wrote.