Nino Burjanadze, the acting president, can prove her democratic credentials by putting Imedi TV back on the air, Salome Zourabichvili, leader of the opposition Georgia?s Way party, said on November 27.
Speaking on Rustavi 2 TV, Zourabichvili said that as the acting president, Burjanadze had the necessary levers with which to resolve the problem.
?Burjanadze has a good chance now to show the world that she really knows what democracy means. And expectations are high in the west towards her in this regard.? she said.
Zourabichvili has been nominated by the nine-party opposition coalition to become Prime Minister if presidential candidate Levan Gachechiladze wins.
After arriving from Europe on November 27, Zourabichvili said that Georgia?s European partners were ?astonished? by what had happened in Georgia on November 7 and afterwards, when an anti-government demonstration was broken up and Imedi TV was raided by police.
Meanwhile, Levan Gachechiladze was formally endorsed by the nine-party opposition coalition on November 27 as a presidential candidate. The ceremony took place in the pantheon at Mtatsminda in Tbilisi, at the grave of Illia Chavchavadze, a 19th century Georgian writer and public figure.
?I want to live in a free country of free people, where there are no mistreated people, where there is no selective justice, where human rights prevail over ruling power,? Gachechiladze said. He added that in the event of being elected, ?nobody will be able to touch private property, nobody will be able to intimidate business, there will be no political police and no ballot fraud will ever take place.?
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