On October 4, 2025, the day of the local self-government elections (which were boycotted by a large part of the pro-Western opposition), while at a polling station, Georgian Dream President Mikheil Kavelashvili called TV Pirveli journalist Ina Tsartsidze a “liar” and a representative of a “lying television.”

“You and your patrons are deceiving young people and the public, claiming that we are illegitimate,” Kavelashvili said in response to the journalist, who was trying to get an answer from him about whether he had been contacted by U.S. President Donald Trump.