60,000 PEOPLE HAVE GOT TOGETHER IN TBILISI’S TO TAKE PART IN A "CIVIL PARADE" OF THE OPPOSITION

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
26.05.2009 16:23 GMT+04:00

About 60,000 people have got together at Tbilisi’s National Stadium
to take part in a "civil parade" of the opposition to demand that
President Mikhail Saakashvili step down.

Initially the action was scheduled for noon, Moscow time, but it began
later as not all its participants could timely arrive to the stadium,
because they arrive from different cities and regions of the country.

According to leaders of some opposition parties, "the parade will
testify to the fact that a majority of people don’t want Saakashvili to
remain president". It is expected that the Tuesday action will approve
the so-called charter of commitments to the people and Georgia, which
will fix the main principles and norms according to which the country
must live – freedom of speech and media, protection of human rights,
civil rights and the independent court.

The action is expected to last for about three hours, after which
its participants will walk down Rustaveli Avenue to the parliament
building, ITAR TASS reported.