Mikheil Saakashvili calls for intensifying protests against Georgian authorities
During today's court hearing, former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili addressed his fellow citizens and the international community via video link. He stated that the protests in Georgia should intensify and develop into much more powerful pressure on the ruling Georgian Dream.
 
"We are dealing with people, with a gang that understands only one language - the language of a stick. This is increasing pressure, a strike, a boycott of businesses that are robbing the Georgian people. We should not calm them down, on the contrary, they should be afraid until they retreat. We should not call on them: "Let's talk", they themselves should beg us for dialogue. This is the only way out today," Saakashvili emphasized.
 
The former president also spoke positively about the international activities of the current President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili.
 
"So everything is crystal clear. Our friend Donald Tusk, the Prime Minister of Poland, called on the Georgian people to take to the streets, such things happen very rarely. Many international figures are calling for the same, President Macron has practically called for the same,” Saakashvili noted.
 
Recall that Salome Zurabishvili proposed two ways out of the political crisis: dialogue with the founder of the Georgian Dream party Bidzina Ivanishvili through compromise or achieving new parliamentary elections by “falling the regime.” She said that a council would be created to prepare a roadmap for holding new elections in Georgia.
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