Akaki Bobokhidze: We must force 'Georgian Dream' through public pressure to schedule elections based on a common agreement - we need more activity, and the Georgian people must also realize what dangers await us"

"The legal form is not bad, but we need the support of the people, and gaining the people's support requires effort — otherwise, we, these parties, will end up just as we were in the late 1980s," stated Akaki Bobokhidze, one of the leaders of "European Georgia," while speaking about the Constitutional Court's review of the lawsuit regarding the banning of political parties.

On PalitraNews's program "360 Degrees," Akaki Bobokhidze stated that opposition parties need to be more active, while the Georgian people must realize what long-term dangers lie ahead.

"It worries me only in the sense that it will be yet another shadow, yet another stain on Georgia as a modern state. In 1990, during the March elections, Zviad Gamsakhurdia did not participate solely because the electoral code did not allow for a multi-party system. Despite the fact that the 'Round Table' was informal and unofficial, it exerted pressure on the Supreme Council and forced it to pass the law that was acceptable, and only after that did they participate in the elections.

We [must manage to] force 'Georgian Dream,' through the will and pressure of the Georgian people, to schedule an election that will be based on a common agreement, and not in the way they will schedule the next election.

We need more activity, and the Georgian people must also realize what dangers await us in the long term. We are facing a severe dilemma. When we say, 'Look at what happened in Hungary, a leader emerged,' these comparisons aren't entirely accurate. We did much earlier what we now envy. We are facing different challenges now; neither the Serbs nor the Hungarians currently have the feeling that a Russian bomb might drop on them tomorrow," Akaki Bobokhidze stated.