Opposition MPs on Hunger Strike

(Tbilisi, July 16, 2003, Civil Georgia) – 7 members of the Parliament’s National Democratic faction went on hunger strike on July 16 in the Justice Ministry of Georgia demanding funding of budgetary backlog on pensions.

Last month the court ruled positively on the National Movement’s appeal considering the distribution of pensions, frozen by the government due to the budgetary shortfall.

The hunger strikers demand the Justice Ministry to execute the court ruling.  

“This is the only way to solve the problem. The government has doomed Georgian nation for starvation. We will starve along with the Georgian people,” Koba Davitashvili of the National Movement said.

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