Labor Party, led by Shalva Natelashvili, again called on the opposition parties to withdraw from the race and boycott 30 May local elections.

“I am calling once again and finally to our dear colleagues from the opposition: do not become part of a trap – with the name local elections - set by the terrorist regime with a purpose to save itself,” Shalva Natelashvili said on May 18.

“Let’s thwart [through boycotting] these so called elections, which will amount to an inevitable end of the current authorities,” he said.

Natelashvili also claimed that the authorities, through the Interior Ministry’s operatives, were offering his party EUR 4 million in an attempt to convince the Labor Party to run in the elections.

Natelashvili, along with his three other party members, is formally a lawmaker; but MPs from the Labor Party are boycotting the Parliament and have not participated in any of its sittings.

Ex-parliamentary speaker Nino Burjanadze’s Democratic Movement-United Georgia, as well as National Forum party is also boycotting the local elections.