The ruling Georgian Dream party announced it would include the For Georgia party, led by exiled former Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia, in a constitutional lawsuit seeking to ban opposition parties, in what critics see as a tactic to further extend the deadline for the Constitutional Court to rule on the case.
Georgian Dream first filed the claim with the Constitutional Court seeking to outlaw opposition parties in November 2025. At the time, the ruling party included three major parties that had crossed the five percent threshold in the disputed 2024 parliamentary elections: the United National Movement, Lelo/Strong Georgia, and Ahali/Coalition for Change. The claim, however, spared Gakharia’s party, with the appeal closely following For Georgia’s decision to reverse its opposition boycott and take up its parliamentary mandates.
GD has now reversed its stance. Announcing the decision on September 14, Georgian Dream parliamentary majority leader Irakli Kirtskhalia accused For Georgia of “gross and brazen non-recognition of the constitutional order” in Georgia despite the ruling party “giving them a chance to genuinely engage” in parliamentary life.
Kirtskhalia further accused the opposition party of “countless destructive actions” and of serving “the same insidious idea that the agent network of the collective [United] National Movement has been serving.”
He said, however, that the appeal won’t be targeting For Georgia’s MP mandates.
This is not the first time GD has added a new party to the appeal. In April, the ruling party stated that it would withdraw its appeal from the Constitutional Court and submit a “corrected” version that adds the Federalists party to the list. The decision was widely interpreted at the time as an attempt by GD to extend the maximum nine-month period for the Constitutional Court — believed to be dominated by the ruling party loyalists — to review the case.
Announcing the decision to include For Georgia as well, GD did not specify whether it would again withdraw and resubmit the “corrected” claim, but critics believe the move follows the earlier pattern.
“There are more than 200 parties registered in Georgia. Accordingly, Georgian Dream has an additional reserve of 200 opportunities to create news out of nothing, to provide informational distraction from 200 failures, and to postpone the consideration of a lawsuit 200 times,” Nino Lomjaria, Georgia’s former ombudsperson, wrote on Facebook, commenting on the announcement.
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