In an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro, Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili said, "I am ready to take on great responsibilities, including a second [presidential] term, in order to return Georgia to the European path." The president's term expires in December. As provided for by the 2017 constitutional amendments, the president will not be elected through elections but by 300 voters.

In an interview with Le Figaro, the President of Georgia discussed the upcoming parliamentary elections and their expected results. "We should expect everything, machinations, such as the creation of obstacles to prevent the diaspora from voting, which represents approximately one-third of the electorate, the use of administrative resources, propaganda aimed at the fears of Georgians - war or the LGBT issue," she said.

The president expects the pro-Western opposition to win the elections. While this opposition may not be fully united due to recent events, she believes they could still rally around the shared goal of European integration and potentially secure 50% to 60% of the vote.

She also spoke about the "foreign agents" law and noted that it was not called the "Russian law" for nothing because it was this law with which Putin subjugated Russia’s civil society. The president also said that the Georgian government is trying to "cut the country off from Europe and make it under the Russian protectorate."

When asked how France and the European Union will help Georgia, the president said: "They should say and repeat that what the Georgian government is doing is against the European way." She also noted that she does not favor sanctions because "it can be interpreted badly by the population; it does not prevent us from announcing what will happen after the elections if the pro-Russian orientation is confirmed."

Salome Zourabichvili said the parliamentary elections will be a referendum on the country's European future.

"There is a very clear choice on the part of the Georgian government to get closer to Moscow," Zourabichvili said, adding that it became clear after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The president also noted that Georgian politics is currently led by the honorary chairman of "Georgian Dream" Bidzina Ivanishvili, whom she called an "oligarch." According to the president, Ivanishvili's interests in Moscow are "the most opaque."

"Georgia is faced with an existential choice - it will follow its European fate with the parliamentary elections of October 26, or it will return to the service of Russia, with a regime modeled after Putin's regime," President Zourabichvili added.

She also commented on her "Georgian Charter," which "is based on the European recommendations submitted to Georgia within the framework of granting the candidate status by the European Union in the last two years. Recommendations related to the independence of the judiciary and, in general, to all institutions of the country, to the reform of the "Electoral Code." It envisages the repeal of the laws adopted in recent years that oppose the rapprochement with the European Union, ignoring Article 78 of the "Georgian Constitution," according to which the country's institutions must do everything to ensure Georgia's integration into the European Union and NATO. The idea is that by next spring, it will be possible to show the EU what has been done to meet the recommendations in order to be allowed to open membership negotiations”.