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Wednesday, 02 February 2005
PROTESTORS IN GEORGIA DEMANDS HIGHER LIVING STANDARDS
By empty (2/2/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At a rally in Tbilisi on Wednesday organized by trade unions, about 2,000 people demanded an official minimum wage that is up to the minimum subsistence level and protested the unemployment level and delayed payments of unemployment benefits. Speakers at the rally said President Mikheil Saakashvili had failed to live up to the expectations of ordinary people who supported him during Georgia\'s \"Rose Revolution\" of November 2003 and that ordinary people were even worse off today than a year ago. The rally participants issued a warning that, if their demands remained unsatisfied, there would be more rallies and demonstrations and that demands for the dismissal of the Georgian leadership would be put forward.
At a rally in Tbilisi on Wednesday organized by trade unions, about 2,000 people demanded an official minimum wage that is up to the minimum subsistence level and protested the unemployment level and delayed payments of unemployment benefits. Speakers at the rally said President Mikheil Saakashvili had failed to live up to the expectations of ordinary people who supported him during Georgia\'s \"Rose Revolution\" of November 2003 and that ordinary people were even worse off today than a year ago. The rally participants issued a warning that, if their demands remained unsatisfied, there would be more rallies and demonstrations and that demands for the dismissal of the Georgian leadership would be put forward. (Interfax)