UNM’s Tsitlidze dismisses reports on leaving MP mandates by party members

The United National Movement (UNM) MPs have no plans to leave their mandates in the state legislature, the party MP Ani Tsitlidze told Front News on Friday, dismissing the reports by several media outlets.

 

She suggested that the main issue now was “not to allow the authorities to return Georgia back to the Russian orbit.”

 

“We, the opposition, believe that all mechanisms and the ways should be used to remove the authorities from power. Let’s once again gather on Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi and tell the government that they will not succeed in changing the country’s course,” Tsitlidze said.

 

A rally, Home to Europe, organized by the civil movement Shame and NGOs, is scheduled in central Tbilisi later today.

 

The organizers are set to raise demands towards the government.

 

The Georgian Dream ruling party said that the Shame movement was affiliated with the “radical, United National Movement opposition.”