Presidential candidate Levan Gachechiladze
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Saakashvili Unable to Agree with Opposition
In a live air of Rustavi 1 TV Co., presidential candidate Levan Gachechiladze announced he had met with another candidate, Mikhail Saakashvili, but that meeting had been abortive.
Gachechiladze didn’t name the initiator of that get-together with Georgia’s president, but specified that Nino Burjanadze, who is the acting president today, had played the greatest role in the meeting.
Georgia would face a grand civil standoff if no second-round run-off is held, Gachechiladze said. I’ve won those elections and we won’t reconcile to injustice. If the second round isn’t called, we will refer to the national disobedience, he warned.
The actions, Gachechiladze went on, could be holding mass rallies with the live chain of people extending to Mtshet, hunger strikes and so forth. He also urged the nation of Georgia to join the protest rally against rigged elections that Tbilisi will face January 13.
Georgia’s Central Election Commission preliminary confirmed Mikhail Saakashvili (52.21 percent of votes) as the winner of January 5 presidential elections. Gachechiladze got just 25.26 percent, and the remaining five candidates were backed up by less than 7 percent. All six oppositional candidates said the elections were fixed and called for the second round.
The election results in Georgia will be finally announced January 13.
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