The Constitutional Court did not accept the National Movement’s lawsuit on the recognition of the temporary parliamentary commission investigating the activities of the National Movement government as unconstitutional.

As noted in the statement issued by the National Movement, with this decision, the First Collegium of the Constitutional Court “once again incited the Georgian Dream to ignore the principles of the Constitution and act arbitrarily.”

“On November 10, 2025, the United National Movement appealed to the Constitutional Court of Georgia and appealed the constitutionality of the “treason commission” created by the self-proclaimed parliament of the Georgian Dream under the chairmanship of MP Tsulukiani.

The officially declared goal of the said commission was precisely to prepare a legal basis for banning political parties. The lawsuit filed with the Constitutional Court by the self-proclaimed Georgian Dream majority regarding the banning of parties is therefore entirely based on the conclusion of this commission.

We asked the Constitutional Court to assess the constitutionality of the unlimited authority of the parliamentary investigative commission.

The ruling of the Constitutional Court of Georgia of March 26, 2026 (case No. 1915) is a classic example of how, during a severe political crisis, the court can use legal formalism as a tool to evade responsibility. The Constitutional Court refused to subject the possibility of the parliament’s arbitrary and repressive use of this function to constitutional control.

This means that the Constitutional Court has granted the Georgian Dream unlimited authority to arbitrarily subject any political party, group or organization, in complete disregard of constitutional principles, to its investigative mechanism, to oblige their members to appear for fear of being arrested, to demand an explanation of the motives and reasons for the political decisions taken, and thus to create the prerequisites for their political persecution.

We believe that the First Panel of the Constitutional Court refused to fulfill its basic duty and once again incited the Georgian Dream to ignore the principles of the Constitution and act arbitrarily. With this decision, it has prepared the ground in advance for the prohibition of political parties and, consequently, political pluralism in the country, based on the conclusion of the Tsulukiani “treason commission”.

It is also worth considering that such an important issue related to the process of consolidation of autocracy in the country was considered by the Constitutional Court in secret, without an oral hearing. Accordingly, we were deprived of the opportunity to hear the legal explanations of the representatives of the illegitimate parliament orally and to properly protect our essential interests as a political party, which, in turn, violates the principles of fair trial.

We once again demand that the issue of the admissibility of the lawsuit to ban parties be resolved on the basis of an oral hearing and that the Constitutional Court not issue a decision again on the basis of a closed process,” reads the statement.