Rehan Dimitri
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Global News Podcast
South Korea's president impeached
It's freezing cold, but despite this weather, there are lots of people. Like every night, we've seen night after night people turning up in their thousands. The pro-EU Georgians who are protesting, they feel that it's the only thing they can do. They do feel powerless. I've been talking to some of the protesters. They're asking for help from outside Georgia.
Global News Podcast
South Korea's president impeached
They're asking for the EU or the United States to impose sanctions on their government to show some kind of support. But at the same time, they're determined to continue protesting. They believe that what's happening right now in Georgia goes against their wishes, against the will of the Georgian people, as they say.
Global News Podcast
South Korea's president impeached
Earlier today in Parliament, Mikhail Kavalashvili, he was elected by an electoral college, which consists mainly of the loyalists of the Georgian dream, the ruling party. I was inside the parliament. I spent several hours there. And to be honest, my feeling was that there are now two Georgias and two different realities.
Global News Podcast
South Korea's president impeached
One is inside parliament, where everything is quiet, where you can't really hear what's happening outside. And I was talking to some pro-government MPs. They do not consider that there's any political crisis in the country. They're disregarding the protests that have been going on for weeks now in Georgia. saying that it's all just artificially created and somehow influenced from outside Georgia.
Global News Podcast
South Korea's president impeached
And then there's another reality, which is outside the parliament, in those freezing temperatures, people turning up, they are booing, they are doing whatever they can to express their discontent.
Global News Podcast
South Korea's president impeached
It is unlikely, Alex. He did not make any formal statements today. He was just there to receive the congratulations from the ruling party and from his own party, which is called People's Power. But those who are protesting, they're saying that he does not represent the Georgian people. His party, People's Power Party, was the one that proposed the
Global News Podcast
South Korea's president impeached
a very controversial law called the foreign agents law. He's one of the architects of that law. He's been a very outspoken critic of the Western policies in Georgia. He's an illiberal politician. And those who are protesting outside Parliament, they do not see that he is the representative of those values that they're trying to defend.