Bidzina Ivanishvili, the honorary chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party, has addressed supporters from the Mtskheta, Georgia’s ancient capital and religious center.

Ivanishvili claimed that the opposition, referred to as the “collective United National Movement (UNM),” will “necessarily act contrary to the national interests and create obstacles to restoring the territorial integrity, which we should not allow.” This is why, Ivanishvili argued, GD must have the constitutional majority.

According o him, GD needed the constitutional majority “to rid the country of this serious disease once and for all” and vowed to initiate the legal process after the elections to outlaw “all satellite and successor parties” of the UNM.

“The October 26 elections must turn into Nuremberg trials for the UNM, where the constitutional majority of the Georgian people will deliver a proper verdict to this bunch of politicians without a motherland, the network of foreign agents who are ready to sign any anti-state order,” Ivanishvili said.

“Healthy elections will be held in Georgia only when the collective UNM in the Georgian political system is replaced by patriotic political forces,” he added.