Nino Burdzhanadze demands Sahakashvili resignation

May 21, 2011 – 16:42 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net –

Several members of Georgia’s opposition headed by People’s Assembly
movement are going to push for President Mikheil Saakashvili’s early
resignation, the Georgia Online said on May 21.

The radical opposition members have taken to streets in Tbilisi, they
are going to satge rallies near official buildings and urge the
president to step down in three days.

Earlier in the day, Saakashvili arrived with an official visit in Hungary.

Parliamentary ex-speaker Nino Burdzhanadze, who is also a member of
the leadership of the People’s Assembly of Georgia, said that the
opposition movement “is ready to bring to a conclusion its peaceful
fight and peaceful actions for Saakashvili’s early resignation, which
will allow to hold democratic elections.”

“Democratic elections are impossible during Saakashvili’s presidency,”
she said in an interview with the Tbilisi-based newspaper
Asaval-Dasavali.

Free Georgia opposition party headed by Kaha Kukava has already joined
the protest campaign, RIA Novosti reported.