About 60,000 people have got together at Tbilisi’s National Stadium to take part in a “civil parade” of the opposition to demand that President Mikhail Saakashvili step down.
Initially the action was scheduled for noon, Moscow time, but it began later as not all its participants could timely arrive to the stadium, because they arrive from different cities and regions of the country.
According to leaders of some opposition parties, “the parade will testify to the fact that a majority of people don’t want Saakashvili to remain president”. It is expected that the Tuesday action will approve the so-called charter of commitments to the people and Georgia, which will fix the main principles and norms according to which the country must live – freedom of speech and media, protection of human rights, civil rights and the independent court.
The action is expected to last for about three hours, after which its participants will walk down Rustaveli Avenue to the parliament building, ITAR TASS reported.
