On 14 December 2024, Bidzina Ivanishvili and his party elected their own President for Georgia. After having usurped power in the wake of the massively rigged elections, today Georgian Dream appointed Mikheil Kavelashvili as “President of Georgia”. 

As stated before [1], after the rigged elections Georgian Dream arbitrarily and unilaterally formed a new Parliament, the first session of which was convened in gross violation of the Georgian Constitution for the reasons that: 1. The first session of Parliament had not been convened by the President who had a sole power to do so; 2. Parliament acknowledged legitimacy of its members even though their legitimacy had been challenged in the Constitutional Court which fact deprived Parliament of the legal right to acknowledge legitimacy of such members. 

In view of the foregoing, the President “elected” by the illegitimate Parliament is illegitimate too. In regard to the Georgian law, the Georgian public does not recognize the Georgian Dream-“elected” president as a lawful President of Georgia. Obviously, by electing the president in gross disregard of the Constitution and law, Bidzina Ivanishvili and his party drive the country into a deeper political crisis.

We once again call on Bidzina Ivanishvili to quit exacerbating the political crisis and to take measures that would be in the interests of the Georgian people and, accordingly, are necessary to respect the Constitution and the law of Georgia. Also, we remind him once again that the country’s exit from the political crisis is only possible by taking the following steps:

1. All unlawfully arrested/detained persons should be released and the cases launched against them should be terminated;
2. There should be a re-run of elections which should be administered by a new, fairly composed election administration, by ensuring, at the same time, full political neutrality of the law enforcement bodies (State Security Service, Special Investigative Service, Ministry of the Interior).