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Georgia’s major opposition parties addressed European Union and NATO leaders with a joint letter, stressing that the Georgian Dream government’s “confrontational” refusal of the loan from the EU, conditioned on court reform and upholding Brussels-mediated April 19 deal, “constitutes the latest in cascade of events that aim to thwart Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic path.”

The parties said the GD government has consistently shown that their EU ambitions are merely a façade, under which Georgia underwent a “full-pledged state capture,” including of the judiciary, by the “informal” system of governance.

The signatories said July 5 homophobic pogroms, “when PM Garibashvili incited Russian and Georgian Dream-linked extremists to carry out mass violence against Tbilisi Pride, who later physically assaulted 53 journalists with one dying days later, was a landmark event in this context.”

“While it is our task to resist this danger to Georgia’s European and Euro-Atlantic path and reverse it, the moment to apply legitimate leverage and influence to halt these dangerous developments is now,” the opposition parties stressed in the missive sent to European Council President Charles Michel, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, EP President David Sassoli and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.