The news agency For.ge has published secretly recorded audio. In the recording, the authenticity of which has not been confirmed yet, the leader of the Girchi – More Freedom party, Zurab Japaridze, speaks about the protest rallies.

“We will mobilize in such a way that others will come on their will, they will see the process ongoing… they won’t seize you. 30,000 people means that you can have 10,000 people near the parliament, and whatever state resources are available, they will have to mobilize in those two places. You will be able to enter some other place with 10,000 people. There were more than 30,000 people on the streets, but no one knew what it was for.

These people took to the streets because they were angry that the EU rejected us, this is clear, but no one knew what was going on beyond that. Now people in the streets, you are the people who heard me say: street, protest, picket is the way, and that is why you are out. If we grow like this, everyone will know that we are these people, we are ready to give it a go…

On June 20, this leadership had no idea what these people were ready to do. If we grow up in this way, we will know what kind of people we are, what we want to do, what our goals are, and what we are ready for. No one will stop us, there is no chance”.

Furthermore, two interlocutors of Zurab Japaridze stated:

– No, if we don’t learn to take to the streets, nothing will happen, there is no point in anything.
– I still think that we should learn not only to take to the streets but also to be a little aggressive.
– What aggression! Is it giving them the occasion?
– No, it is not like giving them the reason, we were so many thousands in the streets so many times of times in the streets, with empty hands up. Where have you seen a barehanded protest?