Rally participants march from TSU toward Rustaveli Avenue

A rally is being held in Tbilisi. The participants are holding a march toward the central Rustaveli Avenue after they convened at the Tbilisi State University building and Kostava Street.

The rally participants claim that the rally is connected with the November 28 statement by Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze.

The participants carry various banners and Georgian and EU flags. Representatives of opposition parties joined the rally.

“Exactly a year ago, Ivanishvili clearly stated what I have known personally since 2012: that under his regime, Georgia would have no European future. He openly halted Georgia’s European integration process, which has been the historic choice of many generations of our people and our nation.

The Georgian people will undoubtedly continue this path and will ultimately achieve final victory when Georgia becomes a worthy member of the European Union. I am deeply convinced of this. Evidence of this includes the fact that, for a year, the people have not grown tired, have not become accustomed, nor have they surrendered to Ivanishvili’s narrative that Georgia has no European future, no place in the free, civilised world, but instead, remains under Russian influence, Russia’s backyard, a failed, impoverished country ruled by a gang of criminals, preoccupied only with amassing their own wealth,” said Tina Bokuchava, Chair of the United National Movement (UNM) party.