TBILISI, December 3. /TASS/. The Georgian opposition’s fourth attempt to incite a revolution has failed, Prime Minister of Georgia Irakly Kobakhidze said.

"In the past four years, we saw four attempted revolutions - the ‘natsmaidans’. This is a fact. The first attempt to carry out a ‘natsmaidan’ took place in 2022, when we were not granted [EU membership] candidate status. NGOs funded from abroad entered the political stage and demanded that the government resign, hoping to take power themselves. The second attempt took place in the spring of 2023, the third took place in the spring of 2024, and now we see the fourth failed attempt to carry out a ‘natsmaidan’," Kobakhidze said during a briefing.

He pointed out that all these attempted revolutions have run the opposition ragged.

"It is clear now that a lot of resources were depleted in these four years. Accordingly, the fourth wave of revolution was much weaker than it could be," Kobakhidze noted.

According to the prime minister, over the past two days of rallies near the parliament building, much fewer people showed up, including radicals.

A new wave of protests began in Georgia on November 28, sparked by Prime Minister Irakly Kobakhidze’s statement that the ruling party, Georgian Dream — Democratic Georgia, had decided to postpone any discussion about the country joining the European Union until the end of 2028 and to refuse any funding from the EU. He said that the decision was influenced by constant attempts at blackmail by the EU regarding the start of the accession dialogue, demands to cancel a number of laws adopted by the parliament, and calls to sanction the Georgian authorities.

Large-scale protests took place last and this spring in Tbilisi, precipitated by the ruling party’s initiative to pass a law on foreign agents. The authorities withdrew the bill after the clashes last year, but reintroduced it again this April. Despite the constant protests and the pressure from the West, the ruling party adopted the law "On transparency of foreign influence," which caused a significant deterioration of Georgia’s relations with the EU and the United States.