The FINANCIAL — According to online magazine Civil Georgia, eight-party opposition coalition is launching a protest rally on March 9.
Opposition supporters started gathering outside the Parliament on Rustaveli Avenue at 2pm.
Politicians from the opposition New Rights Party, including its leader MP Davit Gamkrelidze, have also showed up. New Rights were undecided until Saturday whether to join the rally or not.
The Republican Party leaders, however, have not yet joined the protests, although some leaders of the party said earlier they would join.
“We are not gonging to disperse unless our demands are not met,” MP Zviad Dzidziguri of the Conservative Party, part of the eight-party coalition, told Civil.Ge on March 9.
Koba Davitashvili, the leader of Party of People, as well as Jondi Bagaturia leader of Georgian Troupe – both part of the coalition – said the protest rally’s major demand would be recount of votes of the January 5 presidential elections, that would lead to repeat presidential elections.
Gia Tortladze of the Movement for United Georgia Party, part of the eight-party coalition, however, focused in his address to the opposition supporters at the rally about the Parliament’s recent controversial decision on the rule of electing majoritarian MPs.
“We will not stop protest rallies unless we have a situation wherein it would be possible to hold genuinely free and fair parliamentary elections,” MP Tortladze told the protest rally.
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