 The party leader had to flee for several days while the prosecutor's office accused Natelashvili of state treason and organizing mass unrest.The government revoked all its allegations after the international community and the US ambassador to Georgia John F. Tefft intervened and cancelled the arrest warrant.On 1 October 2012, Georgian-Russian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili's party, the Georgian Dream, took power in Tbilisi and the attacks and pressure on the Georgian Labour Party mounted.