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| Thousands demanded Shevardnadze’s resignation |
Mikheil Saakashvili, the opposition leader, urged the Georgian citizens to stop paying taxes and called on public sector employees to stay away from work.
“I call on each citizen of Georgia to declare civil disobedience against the Shevardnadze’s regime. I call on police and army not to obey the orders of the authorities. I call on the employees of state organizations to cease working for these authorities and paralyze the activity of state structures,” Saakashvili said on November 14, while addressing thousands of people gathered today in front of the Parliament building.
Earlier on November 14 Mikheil Saakashvili called President Shevardnadze to appear before the demonstrators in front of the Parliament. The crowd of protesters waited for the president in silence for half an hour in vain and then staged a march near the President’s office, chanting “Go Away, Resign.”