Saakashvili party decided to stop the boycott of the Georgian parliament

The Political Service of the largest opposition party of Georgia "The Unified National Movement" (UND) on Sunday decided to terminate the seven months of the boycott of the parliament, Interfax reports. “We decided to terminate the boycott and entry of our elected deputies into the parliament. This is the right decision, which will necessarily lead to a change of power,” the chairman of the UND Nikanor Melia told reporters.

Melia visited Kyiv last week, where he met with the founder of the UND, ex-president of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, discussing with him the party strategy for coming to power.

On Sunday, Melia noted that the boycott of the parliament was justified, since "it was a struggle against the regime of the oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili, who captured the state." As Melia added, "we will not sign a document on the release of the political crisis in Georgia, which was signed by the ruling party and other opposition parties."

Opposition parties, which received during the parliamentary elections in October 2020, 60 out of 150 deputy mandates, announced a boycott to the parliament under the pretext that the elections were totally falsified in favor of the ruling Georgian Dream party. A political crisis arose when the parliament could not work fully.

Last month, opposition parties, in addition to the UDR, stopped the boycott and entered the parliament, signing a document prepared by the President of the European Council Charles Michel, who visited Tbilisi twice in March and April and met with the leaders of the political parties in Georgia.