For me personally, the most grievous thing is that during these years there was also an insidious betrayal within our team, which not only placed Georgian Dream before a crisis but created a real danger of deviation from the trajectory of development, reads the statement, issued by Bidzina Ivanishvili, Honorary Chairman of the Georgian Dream.

“Naturally, there have been mistakes over these 13 years, but, fortunately, none of such magnitude as to threaten our sovereignty or physical existence, nor of a nature that their correction or removal would be impossible.

For me personally, the most grievous thing is that during these years there was also an insidious betrayal within our team, which not only placed Georgian Dream before a crisis but created a real danger of deviation from the trajectory of development, of the return to power of forces subservient to foreign interests for the Georgian people and our country.

In the past, some members of our team chose to prioritise subservience to influential foreign powers or personal comfort over the interests of our citizens, believing it would bring them great benefit. As a result, they set aside the welfare of the team and the country. However, we endured this, too! Since 2011, the support of Georgian society and our wise people has sustained and continues to sustain me, reinforcing my belief that we can overcome any difficulty.

Indeed, it was through constant vigilance, standing for the truth and continually working to strengthen sovereignty, that we exposed all traitors and compelled internal enemies to recognise that their actions are driven not by national interests, but by foreign ones. Specific foreign powers hiding behind the mask of friend and partner have been forced openly to admit that they demand our subservience to their interests!

Precisely for this reason, pressure and blackmail against our country and people have intensified, taking various forms. Naturally, against the backdrop of external challenges and the destructive wars unfolding in the region, attacks on our sovereignty are becoming more and more frequent and increasingly fierce. However, specific powers are now obliged to do this not through internal enemies, as they did for years, but through external ones”, - writes Bidzina Ivanishvili.