Burjanadze: ‘Failure of Protests will Lead to Dictatorship’
If the ongoing protests fail to yield results, President Saakashvili would further increase its grip on power and Georgia will turn into “dictatorship,” Nino Burjanadze, a former parliamentary speaker and leader of Democratic Movement-United Georgia, said on April 30.
“If these protest rallies end without success – I do not want to even say it, but let’s say it hypothetically – so in that case it will mean dictatorship, it will mean turning Georgia from the autocratic state into dictatorship,” she said while speaking in the Tbilisi-based Kavkasia TV’s talk show.
April 30 marked the twenty second day of protests.
Speaking to couple of thousand of protesters outside the Parliament earlier on April 30, Burjanadze said that the protests should become “more serious and effective.” She also said the opposition’s actions should become “more radical, but within the constitution.”
Meanwhile, Giorgi Gachechiladze, a singer and an activist, who has turned into an informal leader of ongoing protests against President Saakashvili through his reality TV show, Cell No. 5, reiterated on April 30, that he planned to leave his cell soon to lead “a march on Tbilisi.” He said that the initial plan involved starting the march of supporters from Black Sea town of Batumi. He also said that planning and arranging of the campaign was currently underway and he would announce details “either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.”
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