At a mass demonstration on Rustaveli Avenue, former Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili addressed crowds at the “Georgia, Stand Up!” rally, emphasizing that “unity is the plan” and congratulating demonstrators for seven consecutive months of sustained protest.

“Some people keep asking me for a plan — the plan is unity,” Zourabichvili said, calling for solidarity across political and civic groups. She praised the perseverance of protesters, declaring, “They couldn’t disperse it. They couldn’t weaken it. I congratulate you on seven months of unbroken resistance.”

Zourabichvili asserted that her only political ambition is to help save the country through unity, noting the high cost many demonstrators have paid to keep the movement alive.

She sharply criticized the current government, describing it as plagued by “weakness, dissolution, and collapse.” According to her, the ruling party’s strategy is not to strengthen its position but to undermine the opposition by removing leaders and sowing division.

“They’re trying to discredit me now, but it won’t work,” she added.

Concluding her speech, Zourabichvili stated that change would not come through elections, boycotts, or hunger strikes alone, but through a singular and determined struggle for national unity: “The only fight that matters now is the fight for unity.”