EGN NEWS DESK
Georgia’s pro-EU President, Salome Zourabichvili, urged residents to withstand the federal government’s determination.
“This nation is returning to Russia, which we barely removed,” Zourabichvili stated in a televized briefing.
She later joined the protesters outdoors the parliament, declaring, “a resistance has begun, and it’ll not finish till new elections are known as.”
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 important decision from the European Parliament on Thursday. The decision said that Georgia’s current parliamentary elections weren’t “free and honest” and known as for a re-run below worldwide supervision.
Earlier in October, Brussels introduced Georgia’s accession path had halted as a result of nation “has gone backwards.”
