Protesters Reconvene for Twenty Fourth Day
Few thousand protesters reconvened outside the Parliament on May 2 – the twenty fourth day of protests in Tbilisi.
“We need a new April 9,” Salome Zourabichvili, leader of Georgia’s Way party, told the rally, referring to the first day of protests when tens of thousands of people were gathered.
“We need it in order to dispel argument of the authorities, who claim that the protests are waning; we need a new April 9 and it should take place in next few days,” she added.
“We are united around the slogan – Georgia without Saakashvili; and we will reach this goal,” Davit Berdzenishvili of the Republican Party, part of Alliance for Georgia, told the protests. “We will have elections this year and we will have new parliament and coalition government too… We had no illusion that it would have been possible to achieve our goal in two days.”
After few speeches by the politicians, the stage was given to prominent, pro-opposition individuals, including actors, singers, writes.
Then a concert was held and later in the evening it was joined by Giorgi Gachechiladze, a singer and an activist, who briefly left his TV studio turned into an improvised prison cell, to perform at the rally. Gachechiladze, with a nickname Ucnobi (Unknown), has turned into an informal leader of ongoing protests against President Saakashvili through his reality TV show, Cell No. 5.
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