Labor Party Leader Warns of Permanent Protest Rallies

Protest rallies will continue unless President Saakashvili appoints parliamentary elections in April, Shalva Natelashvili, leader of opposition Labor Party, said on October 31.

?The rally on November 2 will be extremely peaceful, non-violent, but will yield concrete results and the protesters will not disperse, unless the President announces the date of new elections,? he said at a news conference.

The Labor Party is among those ten opposition parties, which are campaigning for holding parliamentary elections in April, instead of late 2008. The opposition has already campaigned in the regions as a lead-up to a planned protest rally in Tbilisi on November 2.

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