Sitting on 6 October to decide whether to admit the lawsuit for consideration on its merits, the First Chamber sent it to the plenum instead, InterPressNews reported at 20:31 from the court’s published ruling. The plaintiffs argue that the parties “have, since 2016, practically continuously denied the legitimacy, both in domestic and foreign policy, of Georgia’s current government and the ruling political party and, consequently, its constitutionality”, which in their reading means the parties acknowledge that one of the two sides must be unconstitutional.
By the court’s own note the ruling is final and will reach the parties within 15 days. The chamber kept the suit alive and handed the question to the full court.
Vasili Roinishvili presided and was rapporteur, with Eva Gotsiridze, Giorgi Tevdorashvili and Goga Kikilashvili as members. The lawsuit, updated on 21 September to add the For Georgia party, had earlier sought to have the United National Movement, the Coalition for Change, Strong Georgia-Lelo and the Federalists declared unconstitutional and banned, by the same report.
The chamber kept the suit alive and handed the question to the full court.
Kos spoke at a press conference the same evening, in answer to a Tabula journalist, as InterPressNews carried it at 20:39. “As you know, Georgia is a candidate country only on paper. I regret that. I would like Georgia, with the strong support of the Georgian people, to be at the same level today as Moldova and Ukraine,” the European Commissioner for Enlargement said, adding that much of what is happening in the country “will be presented in the enlargement reports at the end of October” and that how the Union proceeds depends largely on how the member states assess its future. “You can imagine in which direction this will go,” she said.
Georgian Dream answered within two hours. “When they tell us that Georgia is ‘behind’ Ukraine and Moldova, our answer is simple: Georgia chooses dignity and peace!” Irakli Kirtskhalia, the parliamentary majority’s leader, wrote in a social media post, as InterPressNews carried it at 22:17, reading Kos as saying Georgia cannot receive an accession roadmap and calling progress measured by compliance with political demands “an assessment of unquestioning obedience”. Earlier in the evening Speaker Shalva Papuashvili had said that the more Brussels praises a country the more it harms it with its decisions and imposed directives, and that the only thing Moldova is truly ahead in is Brussels’s praise, by InterPressNews’s stamp of 18:08, and at midday Archil Gorduladze of the ruling party had called every recent resolution on Georgia not worth the price of the paper it could be printed on.
On the European Parliament’s agenda is a debate titled “Attempts by the ruling party, Georgian Dream, to ban opposition parties in Georgia” on Wednesday evening, with a vote on a resolution on Thursday, InterPressNews reported from the Parliament’s website on Sunday. The EU’s ambassador Pawel Herczynski said on Tuesday that the choice between preserving identity and European integration is a false dilemma, by the agency’s account at 17:00.
The suit and the 4 October case share a thesis. Georgian Dream reads the events of 4 October 2025 as a violent attempt to overthrow the government, in Papuashvili’s words, and its lawsuit rests on the parties’ denial of the government’s legitimacy since 2016. Murtaz Zodelava, Lasha Beridze, Guri Zhvania and Irakli Chkhvirkvia, convicted over those events, have asked the prosecutor’s office for plea agreements, admitting the crime and expressing remorse, by the office’s statement of Monday as InterPressNews carried it.
Papuashvili said at 18:20 that they are in prison “because of their shamelessness” and that if they acknowledge their crimes and are released in time they will pave the way for other prisoners. Zodelava and Beridze are expected to receive one year and one month and to leave prison on 4 November, InterPressNews reported on Tuesday morning from its own sources, and Tamaz Elizbarashvili asked for a plea agreement on Tuesday night, by the agency’s Georgian-language headline at 22:32.
The three decisions have three calendars. The plenum decides whether the lawsuit is admissible, on a date the ruling does not give, Strasbourg votes on Thursday, and the Commission reports at the end of October, in a direction Kos said her audience could imagine. Georgian Dream has answered Brussels in advance and now waits on its own court, with the five parties it named.