Georgia's largest opposition party, the United National Movement, continues to collect signatures demanding the release of ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili.

As Levan Antadze, a representative of the United National Movement in Batumi, noted, today the release of Saakashvili is of particular importance for Georgia. “This is also a chance for President Salome Zurabishvili to show the West whose side she is on - the side of the dark empire of the Russian Federation or the side of tomorrow Georgia. So this is both our request and our task to free the person who is fighting for tomorrow, who created this state from scratch,” said Levan Antadze.

Mikheil Saakashvili has been under observation at the Vivamedi clinic for more than a year and a half. He returned to Georgia from Ukraine at the end of September 2021 and was arrested, having been sentenced in absentia to imprisonment in two criminal cases. After his arrest, Saakashvili went on hunger strike three times.