Massive protests coinue in Georgia/ Prime Minister: We foiled the fourth revolution attempt
Mass protests coinue in Georgia, while the Prime Minister of this coury emphasized that the opposition’s attempt to revolution has failed once again.
According to Isna, the Georgian governme’s decision in late November to postpone the start of the coury’s EU accession negotiations for four years has led to almost three weeks of daily protests in Georgia.
The move comes amid an unprecedeed constitutional crisis that saw the coury’s preside declare the newly elected parliame and governme “illegitimate” after the opposition accused Georgia’s ruling Dream Party of rigging the October parliameary election.
On Tuesday, protesters marched in dozens of locations across Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, and thousands gathered in fro of the parliame for the 20th day in a row.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, who had threatened to “uproot” the opposition parties and called them “liberal fascists”, downplayed the protests and with his statemes about the demonstrators who chaed slogans demanding the resignation of the governme and the holding of elections They became new parliamearians, it angered many.
Appoied by the Georgian Dream party, he criticized the European Union for its “steps against Georgia” during a briefing on December 17, dismissing the massive pro-European protests that have coinued outside parliame for nearly three weeks. And he called it “a rally in support of the European Union”.
Kobakhidze also responded to the December 16 decision of European Parliame Preside Roberta Metsula to invite Georgian Preside Salome Zurabishvili to the European Parliame session.
According to him, they are planning to perform a small show at the meeting of the European Parliame with Salome Zurabishvili. Like Zelensky (Preside of Georgia), he stands there and ends his speech with applause. Kobakhidze further said: Such a demonstration cannot have an effect on the curre eves in Georgia.
In another part of his stateme, he stated: The opposition has failed in its fourth attempt for revolution and can no longer bring more than 800 people to the streets outside the parliame.
Kobakhidze added: It’s over! We thwarted their fourth attempt at revolution.
According to the AFP report, in the initial stage of the demonstration, riot police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd, and the Ministry of Ierior reported that more than 400 people were arrested during the protests.
Allegations of police brutality against protesters have drawn growing iernational condemnation, and Washington and several European couries have imposed visa bans on Georgian Dream officials and warned of further personal sanctions.
Protests erupted in the capital and other Georgian cities after Irakli Kobakhidze announced on November 28 that Tbilisi would suspend EU accession talks for four years.
The main demand of the protesters who come to the streets every day is to hold new parliameary elections for the possibility of a legal change of power in the coury. They also demand the release of all those arrested during the protests.
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