Georgia Protest LIVE: Unprecedented Protests Sweep Georgia After Government Scraps EU Bid | CNBC TV18
Anti-government protesters demonstrate outside the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi for a fifth straight night, after Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said he suspended talks on the country’s bid to join the European Union for four years. The ruling Georgian Dream party’s disputed victory in the country’s Oct. 26 parliamentary election, widely seen as a referendum on Georgia’s aspirations to join the EU, has sparked mass demonstrations, with the opposition boycotting the parliament.
Protesters rallied in Georgia’s capital for a fourth straight night on Sunday and there were signs that opposition was spreading across the country to the government’s decision to suspend talks on joining the European Union.
The country of 3.7 million people has seen months of rising tension between the ruling Georgian Dream party and opponents who accuse it of pursuing increasingly authoritarian, anti-Western and pro-Russian policies.
The crisis has deepened since Thursday’s announcement that the government would freeze EU talks for four years, with thousands of pro-EU demonstrators facing off against police armed with tear gas and water cannon.
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