Thousands Rally In Georgia After Opposition Chief’s Arrest:
Thousands Rally in Georgia after Opposition Chief’s Arrest. A huge number of demonstrators gathered to order early elections in the Georgian capital on Friday after the detention of the high representative of the opposition. Demonstrators marched through the city’s main avenue headed. By Georgian, EU, and US flag beating representatives of all opposition Georgia groups before throwing a rally out of parliament. After this week’s detention of Nika Melia the chief of the biggest opposition force of the region, the United Nations Movement. A brutal police attack on the party headquarters in Georgia plummeted into political chaos deeper.
Melia wrote in a speech to protesters reading out at the rally that. I am in jail but I am free. We fight for democracy and in this war, we shall win. However, supporters said that Melia’s determination energized them. The example of Nika inspires us all said Tornike Beridze 20-year old student to AFP. We won’t leave it until the authoritarianism of the Georgian Dream is published in Georgia. The governing party said Natá Shavishvili that Meliá became a symbol of the ambitions of Georgians to create a European, democratic republic.
Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia resigned from his arrest:
Since October’s parliamentary elections, Georgia has faced political instability where the opposition is faulty to hand a slim win to the governing party. Opposition lawmakers opposed a boycott. Hence, that weighs heavily on the prestige of the ruling party in the current parliament. Melia, 41, has supported the conventional opposition movements of Georgia in condemning his arrest for being politically motivated.
Last week Melia was ordered by a court in Tbilisi to be held before trials. After he failed to pay a raised bail charge in the event. Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia resigned from his arrest warning that problems would intensify. But the police nevertheless marched to him and arrested him on Tuesday. The Friday rally was the most recent mass demonstration since October by the opposition. To condemn what is being said about electoral violence and to call for new elections. For the next few weeks, more demonstrations have announced.
