TBILISI, December 1. /TASS/. Georgia’s President Salome Zourabichvili has called on protesters in the city of Batumi, where the country’s Constitutional Court is headquartered, to exert pressure on it.
"We are staying within the constitutional framework and the first thing that is to begin in Batumi this evening is pressure on the Constitutional Court," she told a briefing.
On November 19, Zourabichvili filed a motion with the Constitutional Court demanding that it recognize the results of the October 26 parliamentary elections as rigged. The court has not yet said whether it accepted her motion for hearing or not.
Another anti-government rally is being held near the parliamentary building in Tbilisi. Several thousand people have blocked traffic along Rustaveli Avenue in front of the building. They are demanding the government resignation and rerun parliamentary elections. According to the TASS correspondent, the rally is being attended by less people than in previous days.
Another wave of protests was sparked by Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze's statement on November 28 when he said that the ruling Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia party had decided to postpone any talk about launching accession negotiations until late 2028 and decline any funding from the European Union. According to the premier, the decision comes after repeated attempts by the EU to blackmail Georgia with promises of launching the talks in exchange for Tbilisi revoking certain laws passed by the country’s parliament.