A march of cars demanding the release of Georgia’s jailed ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili took off from Tsalenjikha, the opposition United National Movement party reported.

UNM representatives, including Mikheil Saakashvili’s personal envoy Sopo Japaridze, Tsalenjikha Mayor Gia Kharchilava, and United National Movement MP Temur Janashia, intend to deliver a petition to the Administration of President Salome Zourabichvili.

“Everyone should understand that the freedom of President [Mikheil] Saakashvili is the most important. If we want elections to be held in a minimally free environment, it is important for the main opposition leader to be free. The citizen of Georgia saw well the heroic action performed by President Saakashvili when he took a step related to being [Bidzina] Ivanishvili’s political hostage, and he did it in order to carry out changes in Georgia.

More than 150 000 signatures were collected, there are hundreds of thousands of people who openly express support to President Saakashvili, and we are the people who want changes in this country so that every family can have prosperity. In Kutaisi, where the emigration is actually the largest, and Kutaisi residents know very well how Kutaisi was emptied of Kutaisi residents. Each person who signed was not afraid to record their data, and there are more than 150 000 such people, I want to thank them, as well as all the involved people who collected these signatures in the rain and wind, and today these signatures will already arrive in Tbilisi. President Salome Zourabichvili has nothing left but one - to make the only correct decision and release Mikheil Saakashvili”, - said the Chairman of the [United] National Movement, Levan Khabeishvili.