The FINANCIAL — According to Civil Georgia, three lawmakers and two other opposition politicians said they were launching a hunger strike, which as they said, would continue unless their demands were not met.
MP Zviad Dzidziguri of the Conservative Party said at a protest rally outside the Parliament on March 9 he and four under hunger strikes would demand: repeat presidential elections; creating conditions for holding free and fair parliamentary elections and release of all those persons, who were arrested in connection with the November 7 events. The opposition said only eight persons were released so far, while others still remained in jail.
Other hunger strikers include: MP Gia Tortladze of the Movement for United Georgia (party set up by ex-defense minister Irakli Okruashvili); MP Bidzina Gujabidze of the Conservative Party; Koba Davitashvili of the Party of People and Irakli Melashvili of the National Forum – all part of the eight-party opposition coalition.
MP Dzidziguri said that the opposition would launch registration of volunteers willing to join the hunger strike.
He also called on the supporters for a large-scale protest rally on March 11 when the Parliament plans to hold second hearing on the rule of electing majoritarian MPs.
Number of protesters outside the Parliament on March 9 is far less than during the opposition rallies in previous months.
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