Rome (ANSA) – For the fourth consecutive night hundreds of pro-EU protesters took to the streets in Georgia after as soon as once more, at daybreak, the police dispersed them with water cannons and tear fuel on Rustaveli Avenue, the principle avenue of Tbilisi in entrance of the Parliament. The professional-EU president Salome Zurabishvili has dominated out resigning till new parliamentary elections following the contested ones of October 26 which noticed the victory of the pro-Russian occasion in energy, Georgian Dream.
“On December 29, the president should depart her residence and hand over the constructing to the legitimately elected president,” was the eviction discover given by Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, who dominated out returning to the polls. After months of escalating battle between the ruling occasion and the opponents who accuse it of pursuing more and more authoritarian, anti-Western and pro-Russian insurance policies, the protest escalated on Thursday following Kobakhidze’s announcement to delay the beginning of Georgia’s EU accession course of.
In keeping with Reuters, there are indicators indicating that the protest is spreading all through the nation. Georgian media reported protests in not less than eight cities and the opposition tv channel System exhibits footage of individuals in Khashuri, a metropolis of 20,000 inhabitants in central Georgia, throwing eggs on the native Georgian Dream workplace and tearing down the occasion’s flag.
The vice chairman of the Russian Safety Council Dmitri Medvedev makes insinuations that sound like threats: “There are all of the conditions to plunge Georgia again into the abyss of civil warfare. In brief, the neighbors are shortly following the Ukrainian path to the abyss. Normally, this ends very badly.” “Alongside the Georgian folks and their alternative for a European future” versus authorities selections, Ursula Von der Leyen declared: “The EU door stays open. Georgia’s return to the trail in direction of the European Union is within the fingers of the Georgian management” (December 1).
