Presidential Elections on January 5, 2008 – Saakashvili

Saakashvili said in a televised address to the nation:

• I propose holding presidential elections on January 5, 2008.

• I am giving the opposition the chance to become the people’s choice;

• Yesterday’s events were in response to a conspiracy against Georgian democracy;

• Yesterday we protected not the government, but rather Georgian democracy and the Georgian people;

• I want to hold a plebiscite in parallel with the presidential elections so that the people decide when to hold the parliamentary elections;