Georgia’s pro-EU President Salome Zourabichvili urged residents to withstand the federal government’s choice.
“This nation is returning to Russia, which we barely removed,” Zourabichvili stated in a televised briefing.
She later joined the protesters exterior the parliament, declaring that “a resistance has begun, and it’ll not finish till new elections are referred to as.”
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Addressing riot police, she requested rhetorically: “Do you serve Russia or Georgia? To whom are you sworn?” whereas knocking on their shields.
The prime minister’s rejection of the EU bid adopted a vital decision from the European Parliament on Thursday, stating that Georgia’s current parliamentary elections weren’t “free and honest” and calling for a re-run underneath worldwide supervision.
Earlier in October, Brussels introduced that Georgia’s accession path had been halted as a result of the nation “has gone backwards.”
