Ruling party Honorary Chair claims 2024 parliamentary elections will be “decisive battle” for GD to maintain peace, stability, economic progress

Bidzina Ivanishvili, the founder and the Honorary Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream, on Tuesday said the parliamentary elections scheduled in October would be a “decisive battle” for the GD party to finally strengthen peace in the country, end artificial radicalism and polarisation, maintain stability and economic progress, defend national honour and to preserve Georgia's European perspective. 

At the opening of the GD party’s election campaign and the new central office, he noted “for today, the GD has had the highest record support” of the Georgian people since 2012, and approximately 60 percent of the population declared their trust to it.

“[...] as a result of the support of the Georgian society, the Government was able to maintain peace in the country, improve the economic index and gain the [EU] candidate status, despite the most difficult challenges and heavy pressure”, he added.

Ivanishvili claimed that the Georgian people would conduct the upcoming elections without  “any errors and the Georgian Dream party will win one more time”.

Thanks to the unprecedented unity of the Georgian people, we defeated the bloody regime in 2012 and thought that the National Movement could never lay claim to a return to power. However, as it turned out, their roots run deep, and they represent the network of agents of the global force we now refer to as the Global War Party. It is the result of the Global War Party’s protection that we must fight this evil to this day”, Ivanishvili noted. 

He also noted the GD party needed an “exceptionally solid, constitutional majority-like” victory in parliamentary elections in October “to finally end the war party, [in reference to the UNM] , agents, radicalism, polarisation and liberal fascism” in Georgia and reach European standards of well-being, as a necessary condition for the country's accession to the European Union.

“The October parliamentary elections are a referendum. This is a referendum between war and peace, between slavery and dignity, between returning to the dark past and moving forward, between the complete lack of perspective and the European perspective of Georgia”, he added.

“There is no doubt that the population of Georgia will hold the 26 October elections without mistakes as well and the Georgian Dream will yet again get the majority of seats in the Parliament. In this case, however, this is not enough. We need an exceptionally solid victory tantamount to constitutional majority to finally put an end to the War Party, the agent network, radicalism, polarisation, and liberal fascism in Georgia, in order for Georgia to irreversibly continue its peaceful development and economic progress and achieve European standards of welfare, which is a necessary condition for the country’s accession to the European Union”, Ivanishvili concluded.