The United National Movement party of Mikheil Saakashvili held a protest in Tbilisi today.
After the procession passed through the main streets of the city it moved to Freedom Square and then the protesters proceeded to the building of the State Chancellery, where the government of Georgia was handed a symbolic 'red card', balloons were also released into the air in the form of sharks and penguins, and then the demonstration dispersed peacefully, the agency Novosti-Georgia reports.
The number of participants in the demonstration of the former ruling party is being assessed in different ways: according to the media, the number of people participating in the demonstration was 10-15 thousand, organizers claim about 50 thousand participants.
Saakashvili's party lost its ruling position as a result of the parliamentary elections in 2012. The elections were won by the Georgian Dream coalition, created by the Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, who then headed the government for a year.
Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili condemned the demonstration by the United National Movement, saying that it was an attempt by "destructive forces" to create "artificial difficulty" for Georgia.
