Nika Melia, the party's chairman and Tbilisi mayoral a joint candidate for several opposition parties, said that the reason for this was the Georgian Dream's refusal to receive EU financial assistance, which Melia said amounted to Georgia's refusal to pursue the Western course.
"We must not give our Western partners, our strategic partners, the opportunity to turn their backs on our country and the Georgian people because we have an unreliable government. There is a moment when you have to stand above yourself and there is a moment when even your fair position has to be put aside and you have to take the right, statehood position," - Melia said.
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The Charles Michel Agreement was signed between some representatives of the opposition and the government on April 19, 2021. The signing of the document was preceded by a boycott of the parliament and several months of negotiations. The UNM did not sign the agreement, however, broke the boycott and entered the parliament along with other opposition parties.
The document highlights judicial reform, as well as an important part of the elections - according to the agreement, if the Georgian Dream wins less than 43% of the proportional votes in the 2021 local elections, snap parliamentary elections should be called in 2022.
On July 23, 2021, the Georgian Dream said that the agreement had expired and that it had been unilaterally annulled, citing the major reason that the largest opposition party, the UNM, did not sign the document.
With the withdrawal of the document, the Georgian Dream refused to fulfill its obligations under the Charles Michel document and to carry out judicial and electoral reform - despite the record, to suspend the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court, the parliament appointed at least 6 judges.
This is exactly because of the unfulfilled reforms, that the EU will not transfer additional €75 million in aid to Georgia.
According to the EU Delegation, Georgia has failed to fulfill the provisions for macro-financial assistance - to increase the independence and accountability of the judiciary.
The statement said that financial assistance should be provided to fight the Covid-19 and assist the population of Georgia. At the same time, the EU calls on the authorities to live up to their reform commitments and points to justice reform.
PM Irakli Garibashvili said on August 31 that the government would "refrain" from receiving €75 million from the EU. According to Garibashvili, the EU was providing this amount as a loan to Georgia, and the government "has started reducing the foreign debt and there will be no need to receive the money."
Earlier, on August 23, in the framework of the Crimean summit in Ukraine, Charles Michel met informally with Irakli Garibashvili and, as he wrote the next day, he warned Garibashvili on financial assistance details from the European Union.
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