Opposition UNM Party to Hold Rally outside Parliament on Election Day

Opposition United National Movement Party (UNM) and its supporters are planning to hold a mass protest rally in front of the parliament building on election day, October 31, the party leader Zaal Udumashvili has announced. 

He stated that the party supporters will gather on the central Rustaveli Avenue after 20:00, once the polling stations are closed and the counting of votes begins, to "Monitor the process together and celebrate the victory."

Initially, the information was spread by the Tbilisi City Hall that the rally would start in the afternoon at 12 o'clock, however, the opposition party representatives deny these reports and claim that "This is only the technical part, as at 12:00 the technical staff should come and start setting up the stage, which takes 6-7 hours."

"We are definitely going to hold a demonstration on Rustaveli Avenue, but not at 12:00 as the City Hall announced. We cannot give the Georgian Dream the luxury of us standing on Rustaveli Avenue and leaving the polling stations open to them for election fraud," Udumashvili stated. 

By Ana Dumbadze