On September 13, Georgian Dream Chairman Irakli Kobakhidze said, "We have a subjective reason to get candidate status, we will strengthen even more by getting the status. The opposition is afraid of the candidate's status like a plague because we will become stronger."

According to the Georgian Dream Chairman, the party is very subjective regarding candidate status because, along with everything else, it will also improve the rating of the ruling force. "We have a subjective reason to get the candidate status, we will strengthen even more by getting the status. The opposition is afraid of the candidate status like a plague because we will become stronger. We have a reason to receive it, and for exactly the same reason, the opposition does not want us to receive the status. All this is simple, the rest are empty speculations," Kobakhidze added.

Kobakhidze noted, "The opposition is not weak but really disintegrated. The competition between Khabeishvili, Lomjaria, and others is an intra-party competition within the National Movement, we do not interfere in this, so why should we interfere? The more internal conflicts there are, the better for us, we will not interfere in their internal affairs, on the contrary, I think internal conflicts are very good, and we should give them as much freedom as possible. The opposition is not weak but absolutely broken."