In reality, they have been copying data from the Central Election Commission/CEC database into the application forms designated by the Commission. This documentation is then presented to the CEC, which registers a political party for elections. Girchi rejected this tradition of forging supporters’ signatures and announced that it would participate in the elections only if it collected 25,000 on-line signatures of exclusively genuine supporters. In less than one month, Girchi managed to collect 7,200 signatures, which was not enough to take part in the elections. Since 2009, according to Georgian legislation, conducting lottery activities in Georgia is the sole domain of one company - Georgian National Lottery - lotto.ge. According to Girchi, giving a monopoly to one company is unfair, immoral, economically unjustified and poses questions related to the existence of corruption. To protest this state of affairs, on July 2018 Girchi members carried out an act of civil disobedience on the party’s premises and, in breach of existing legislation, played lotto for money. This was accompanied by live coverage. There was no reaction from law-enforcement agencies, which proved once again how absurd the legislation prohibiting citizens to play lotto or organise a lottery is. On 20 October 2018, one week before the presidential election, Girchi and its activists held the Cannabis Legalisation Festival in Tbilisi, protesting the new aim of Parliament to pass a bill restricting the consumption of cannabis. The event was not green-lighted by the authorities, and police prevented organisers from actually holding the festival. Nevertheless, Zurab Girchi Japaridze publicly handed out cannabis joints to certain individuals, hence, committed another act of civil disobedience by breaking Article 273(1) of the Criminal Code of Georgia. Zurab Girchi Japaridze was eventually detained along with several other participants who protested for the legalisation of Cannabis consumption at the festival. Based on Girchi's statements, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia launched an investigation under the 2nd and 8th Paragraphs of Article 273 (1) of the Criminal Code of Georgia on the illegal possession, use and trade of cannabis or cannabis-related products . However, no formal charges were presented and Zurab Girchi Japaridze and the other detainees were released the same day. Girchi TV started broadcasting on August 21, 2019. One of the leaders of the party Zurab Girchi Japaridze, explained that they want to reach a segment of the Georgian population that still receives political information from television and not from the Internet.