According to Nika Gvaramia, one of the leaders of the Opposition Alliance, after the Tbilisi City Hall, he also received a response from the Ministry of Internal Affairs regarding the rally planned for May 26.

As Gvaramia notes, despite the refusal of the City Hall and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the rally will take place.

“After the City Hall, the Ministry of Internal Affairs also refused. They said a completely surprising thing: why didn’t Gvaramia come himself? And many other stupid things, but the main thing is, we know: protests are prohibited in this country, without exaggeration, they are prohibited.

“Do whatever you want at home” will not work. The rally will take place as the Constitution tells us, and the anti-constitutional responses of the anti-constitutional government will be considered later and by a fair court,” Gvaramia wrote on Facebook.

For information, the Tbilisi City Hall refused to allow the Opposition Alliance to place structures at the protest rally planned for May 26. In particular, as the City Hall notes in its response to the Alliance, due to the fact that official events are planned in Tbilisi for May 26 in connection with Georgia's Independence Day, traffic patterns have been changed, the City Hall "considers it impermissible" to place structures, including a stage, near the Parliament.