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 explains why GD wants a constitutional majority.

"First and foremost, we need it to put the United National Movement on trial", he said.

Regarding the ban on the opposition, Ivanishvili said that the 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.

Ivanishvili also addressed the crackdown on LGBT rights. He said that “the so-called civil partnership of same-sex people, adoption of a child by the LGBT couple, sex change operations, LGBT propaganda in the media and schools, etc.” must be banned by the Constitution.

Accordingg to Ivanishvili, under the conditions of restoring territorial integrity, the country’s governance system and territorial order must be revised, which is impossible without amending the Constitution.” Ivanishvili claimed that the opposition, referred to as the “collective 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.

Ivanishvili concluded: “The more votes Georgian Dream gets on October 26, the better the peace in our country will be strengthened, the peace in November and December, and beyond that, the peace in the next four years.”

“To those for whom the country is precious, [we call upon you] put everything aside and come to the elections, put aside all narrow political issues, because this election is not about politics, but about saving the country.” He added.