On November 19, Irakli Kobakhidze, the head of the ruling Georgian Dream party, asserted that plans to stage a revolution in the country this year, backed by certain members of the European Parliament, had been made by local non-governmental organizations and a portion of the domestic radical opposition, but that plans had fallen through.

Kobakhidze said that the topic of whether Georgia would be granted the European Union membership candidate status had been considered by a part of the opposition and their lobbyists not as a tool to bring the country closer to the bloc but to organize a revolution.

"They had a revolutionary plan prepared for June, and they also had a revolutionary plan prepared for the end of this year; however, many things have changed in our country, many things have changed around our country, and in such a situation, those people who blocked the country from being granted candidate status realized that it would no longer be profitable for them," Kobakhidze claimed. The leader of the ruling party went on, "In the end, they were unable to accomplish the intended outcome. Otherwise, naturally, every one of these actions had been planned so that ultimately, we would not have been awarded the candidate status, and a revolution would have occurred on that basis." 

Additionally, Kobakhidze asserted that President Salome Zourabichvili became one of the components of the radical opposition and was directly involved in the campaign against the country being granted candidate status at some time. The official claimed that even though the European Commission had advised the European Council to award the nation membership candidate status, the radical opposition was still going strong with its anti-state campaign.