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Inside the Parliament building three members of the outgoing Parliament went on hunger strike demanding Shevardnadze’s resignation. Protesters vow to go to the very end.
“If we step back now my child will live in corrupted, impoverished Georgia, like it is now. So I am going to be here and stand beside these people, who, despite rain, protest against this corrupted government and president, who humiliated us and stole our votes [on November 2 parliamentary elections],” Tbilisite Merab, 24, says, standing beside the fire lit in front of the Parliament by the protesters to make a chilly November night warmer.
The November 2 parliamentary elections differed from the previous elections in Georgia. Elections showed that some things do work in this troubled country and the people and civil society are what these things make work.