Eight Georgian opposition parties urge citizens to join protest platform

Representatives of eight opposition parties that have announced a boycott of Georgia’s upcoming local elections gathered in front of the Parliament building on July 25 to deliver a joint statement, urging citizens to register on the platform Join the Resistance (www.joinresistance.ge) and support the growing protest movement.

The parties declared that unity and organized resistance among the public are the most effective tools for weakening what they described as a “criminal and anti-state regime” led by Bidzina Ivanishvili.

“Georgia is losing its future,” the statement reads. “It is losing everything that the Georgian people have achieved over the past 30 years of independence.”

They accused ruling party founder Bidzina Ivanishvili of building a system that thrives on public poverty and disempowerment, while enriching and empowering himself through manipulation and the invention of imaginary enemies. The real threat, they said, is the regime itself.

According to the opposition, every night Georgian citizens go to sleep in a country that is increasingly dangerous, unstable, chaotic, poor, vulnerable, and unjust. If Ivanishvili succeeds in fully capturing the state and crushing public resistance, they warned, chaos will become Georgia’s fate.

However, the parties emphasized that another path remains — one where citizens reclaim power, replacing corruption, terror, and lawlessness with justice, unity, and peace.

“This can only be achieved through unity, organized resistance, and complete isolation of this Russian-style, criminal, treacherous regime,” they declared.

Referring to the large-scale protest held on July 19, the parties said it proved that the movement will not end without unconditional success and fundamental reforms. “Neither cold nor heat nor repression will stop this protest. Only real change will,” the statement concluded.

They called on citizens to register on the Join the Resistance platform if they are ready to be part of the transformation.