(Adnkronos) – A total of 43 people were arrested and 30 hospitalized in the last hours in Georgia during the protests that took place after the decision announced yesterday by Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze to suspend negotiations for accession to the European Union until the end of 2028 and the ruling Georgian Dream party to convene Parliament even without the consent of President Salome Zourabishvili. But in the evening the inhabitants of Tbilisi returned to gather in the city center for a new protest.
Between yesterday evening and this morning, riot police intervened with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons to disperse the crowd that had gathered in front of Parliament. More than a hundred Georgian diplomats in service signed an open letter criticizing the government’s change of policy, denouncing that it is a violation of the Constitution which provides for the pursuit of EU membership.
