Gakharia refused to occupy the Georgian President's Palace

Leader of the opposition party "For Georgia", ex-Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia criticized the intention of other opposition groups to settle in the Orbeliani Presidential Palace to support Salome Zurabishvili, who declared herself the only legitimate leader of the country and was not going to leave the palace on the day of Mikhail Kavelashvili's inauguration on December 29.

"The idea of reducing the protest to the physical protection of the residence devalues this protest," Gakharia said.

Neither any paraphernalia nor the building in which he is located makes the president legitimate, he stressed.

EADaily reported that the opposition offered Zurabishvili to keep the presidential residence after December 29. Anna Dolidze, one of the leaders of the Strong Georgia coalition, told reporters that part of the opposition is ready to occupy the presidential residence and stay there with Zurabishvili.

"We are ready to stay in the palace after December 29 and declare it the only place where the legitimate president of Georgia will be. This is one of our proposals, one of the forms of support that will be fair, legitimate and non—violent," Dolidze said.

There is no response from Zurabishvili to this proposal yet.

Earlier, Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze reminded Zurabishvili of criminal liability for unconstitutional actions. In response, Zurabishvili threatened the authorities with the "fall of the regime."