Georgia Opposition Revolution Turns to Parliament

[Socialist Christian]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&ncid=586&e=6&u=/nm/20031121/wl_nm/georgia_dc

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TBILISI (Reuters) - Opposition activists on Saturday increased pressure on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze to quit in a "bloodless, velvet revolution" and vowed to disrupt the first sitting of his "illegitimate" parliament.





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Shevardnadze, 75, has said he will not be pushed from office by demonstrators and that he hopes the first parliamentary session will resolve the standoff provoked by this month's election the opposition says was rigged.


But Shevardnadze, once Georgia's communist party boss and leader for nearly all the post-Soviet period, faces one of his biggest tests after protests over poll fraud widened into demands for his departure over poverty, corruption and misrule.


Western powers and Moscow have called for a peaceful resolution to the unrest in the impoverished former Soviet state of five million. Any trouble could threaten a planned oil pipeline through Georgia from neighboring Azerbaijan to Turkey.

[SadEagle]

1. "Any trouble could threaten a planned oil pipeline...."

Got their priorities straight, I see --- oil before democracy.
:grr: