Kaladze: One must have public support to be able to stage a coup

The ruling Georgian Dream party has announced the inability of the opposition to stage a coup and a revolution in the country, NewsGeorgia reports.

“The opposition has no opportunity to mount a coup or a revolution in the country,” Kakha Kaladze, the ruling party’s secretary general and mayor of Tbilisi, said at a press briefing held after the preliminary results of the parliamentary elections were announced.

“When staging a coup, one must have the support of society and the people. Today, the opposition, this radical group, has been defeated,” Kaladze said.

He noted that any illegal action “will be followed by a rather harsh response from the state.”

To remind, Georgian Dream won Georgia’s parliamentary elections, according to early reports.