'Let's say goodbye to Bidzina': United National Movement holding rally at Freedom Square
Members and supporters of the opposition United National Movement (UNM) party marched from Republic Square to Freedom Square with Georgian flags and banners that read 'let's say goodbye to Bidzina'. Photo: IPN.
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A concluding campaign rally organized by the United Opposition - Power in Unity is being held on Freedom Square in downtown Tbilisi.
Two days before the parliamentary elections in Georgia, members and supporters of the opposition United National Movement (UNM) party marched from Republic Square to Freedom Square in the center of the capital city of Tbilisi, with Georgian flags and banners that read 'let's say goodbye to Bidzina'.
Supporters from the regions have also joined the rally organised by the UNM.
However, the Georgian March civil movement does not allow the supporters of the UNM coming from Rustavi city to continue marching to join the demonstration at the Freedom Square where the march ends and party leaders will deliver speeches from the main stage.
Protest organisers set up chairs for supporters in the square in order to allow them keep the social distance. Supporters also were checked for temperature and given masks. Screenshot from UNM video.
The 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'.
Georgia is scheduled to hold parliamentary elections on Saturday. For the first time, the elections will be held per a mixed electoral system, with 120 members of parliament (MP) to be elected via party lists and the remaining 30 running in single-member majoritarian districts.
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Georgia is scheduled to hold parliamentary elections on Saturday, amid the coronavirus pandemic, with citizens going to the polls to elect the country’s 10th national legislature since independence from the Soviet Union back in 1991. For the first time, the elections will be held per a mixed electoral system, with 120 members of parliament (MP) to be elected via party lists and the remaining 30 running in single-member majoritarian districts.
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