During the protests the United National Movement majoritarian candidate for Gldani constituency Nika Melia took off the monitoring bracelet which he had been obliged to wear by the court decision, saying that "this is the symbol of injustice".
On 28 June 2019, the Tbilisi City Court decided not to sentence him to pre-trial detention, but obliged Melia to wear an electronic bracelet to be monitored.
[5][6] On 3 November 2020, all eight opposition parties who received the parliamentary mandates signed a joint statement renouncing their seats in the parliament.
On November 8, the rallies were held in Tbilisi, Batumi, where many people were mobilized, calling on the Georgian Dream to hold repeat elections.
On 5 January 2021, four businessmen from the Alliance of Patriots proportional list entered the Parliament replacing the top three on the party list – Irma Inashvili, Giorgi Lomia and Gocha Tevdoradze, whose requests to annul their parliamentary mandates had been granted by the Parliament the day before.
[12] Following the European Socialists, the Citizens party, which recently found itself at odds with the rest of the boycotting opposition, began separate negotiations with the ruling party and agreed to quit the opposition's boycott and enter the Parliament after having signed electoral reform deal with the Georgian Dream.
Meanwhile, the court increased the bail for Nika Melia, the chairman of the UNM, after he took off a monitoring bracelet on November 1.
Nika Melia himself was in the UNM office and called on the people to support him, asserting that his prosecution was politically motivated.
On February 18 Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Gakharia resigned, saying that he could not agree with the Georgian Dream that it was not right time for Melia's detention and that the rivalry inside the country posed serious threats of destabilisation.
In March 2021, the president of the European Council Charles Michel visited Georgia and participated in talks between Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and the opposition.
[17] Michel and the European Union's High Representative Josep Borrell appointed Swedish diplomat Christian Danielsson as the EU envoy to mediate political crisis talks in the country.
[18] Michel also met Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili in Brussels later that month,[17] and other political leaders in Tbilisi in April 2021.
Delegation of European Union in Georgia said in a statement on 8 May: "Today, a bail worth 40.000 GEL was posted to allow for Mr. Melia's release from pre-trial detention.
In response to these developments, the President Salome Zourabichvili announced a process to "find ways to reach a common understanding of the recent history, to help heal the wounds of the past and to move forward".
[32] The President described the process as a "Georgian project" without the intervention of foreign help, in a sharp contrast to previous Western attempts to negotiate an end to the political crisis.
GD Chairman Irakli Kobakhidze talked of "justice" as the foundation for any attempt of reconciliation between political forces.