On October 4, we have the opportunity to demonstrate once again that our struggle today is about going to the polling stations, making a free choice, and safeguarding peace and stability, reads the statement, issued by Bidzina Ivanishvili, Honorary Chairman of the Georgian Dream.

“In terms of defending our unity, the ideals of October 1, and the achievements and gains of recent years, another test awaits us on October 4. In the approaching local self-government elections, unmasked internal and external enemies see yet another opportunity for chaos, a coup d’état and the realisation of their own objectives.

Increasingly, people are realising their true intentions; their support is waning daily, and Georgia’s state institutions are now stronger than ever. This convinces them that their only remaining chance involves even greater radicalism, a direct attack on their own state and, consequently, on the people.

Against this backdrop, on 4 October, we have the opportunity to demonstrate once again that our struggle today is about going to the polling stations, making a free choice, and safeguarding peace and stability. Today, we have the opportunity to definitively and peacefully affirm the peaceful victory achieved in 2012, to consign radicalism and mutual confrontation to the past, and then to strive for greater development and prosperity, to eradicate poverty, to strengthen sovereignty, and to unite the country peacefully!

Long live the united Georgian people! Long live united Georgia!” – writes Bidzina Ivanishvili.