UNM plans to run alone in next parliamentary elections – Melia

The head of the United National Movement (UNM) opposition party, Nika Melia, said Wednesday that the party had plans to run alone in the 2024 parliamentary elections, if the polls were held per the proportional electoral system.

 

Speaking with the Main channel earlier today, Melia suggested that the “opposition parties and various entities have the ability to cooperate.”However, he noted that the UNM had different plans.

 

“My vision is that the UNM should be strengthened independently as much as possible, just like other political parties. Each of the parties should work with the electorate until the elections to receive more votes,” Melia stated.

 

According to him, the UNM party was  working with the voters for this purpose and he wanted his colleagues to work as well, ading  “sooner or later we will unite and come out stronger”.

 

The ruling Georgian Dream party said that it would not accept a lower election threshold and conducted the 2024 race with a five percent barrier, if the EU refused to grant Georgia a membership candidate status next year.