On 11 May, foreign ambassadors in Georgia, who have been working as facilitators in the dialogue between the government and opposition on the 2020 election model, responded to calls to confirm the contents of the agreement. 

In their response the ambassadors said that it was not their role to make the content of those discussions public or to interpret the agreement and added the deal was "well-known to the public". “We call upon all sides to uphold the letter and spirit of both parts of the agreement with a view to its successful implementation,” read the statement by the facilitators.

The responses came after the Georgian parliament speaker Archil Talakvadze asked the facilitators to confirm that the deal involved no promise by the ruling party to release opposition leaders Gigi Ugulava, Irakli Okruashvili and Giorgi Rurua, currently in detention. Earlier, the opposition made the claim on the condition having been part of the deal and accused the ruling party on failing to fulfil it. “The radical opposition is using the fact that the talks were closed to the public and that ambassadors always refrain from making public comments regarding such talks and they (the opposition members) are making false statements. Our people and Georgia’s foreign partners are tired of the speculations,” Talakvadze said, stating that the agreement might be placed at risk due to the “oppositions irresponsibility.”

The Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia also dismissed the notion that there are political prisoners in the country. “The country's independent institutions have made a decision on specific criminal cases; it does not matter if these decisions are positive or negative - these decisions have come into force,” he stated.   

The US embassy in Georgia emphasized that the agreement is composed of two parts — one focused on the election system and the other on addressing the appearance of political interference in the judicial system. The embassy called upon all sides to uphold the spirit of both parts of the agreement. 

The question of the political prisoners arose in Georgia on 8 May, when the Lithuanian politician and member of the European Parliament Andrius Kubilius sent open letters to President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili, Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia and Chairman of Parliament Archil Talakvadze, calling on them to ensure fulfilment of the 8 March  election agreement reached with the opposition and raising his concerns regarding the recent conviction of several opposition leaders and members.  

The 8 March agreement foresees 120 seats in the legislative body to be distributed via a proportional vote and the remaining 30 via the majoritarian system. It also foresees a fair composition of election districts, a 1% threshold, and a cap recognising that no single party that wins less than 40% of the votes should be able to get its own majority in the next parliament.