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Political Chaos grips Georgia - Good or Bad
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| NYCTrancefan |
From BBC-
"Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze has declared a state of emergency after opposition forces seized parliament.
He refused to resign and said the armed forces would now take over after what he called a coup attempt.
Crowds led by main opposition leader Mikhail Saakashvili stormed the parliament building after weeks of protests over disputed elections.
Nino Burjanadze, outgoing speaker of parliament, says she has become interim president.
But the situation is confused, with Mr Saakashvili appearing to suggest that Mr Shevardnadze could stay on - but only if he called early presidential elections.
"If he announces... some transitional period for new presidential elections, that's fine," he told CNN."
I'm very interested to see how this plays out as there are U.S. oil companies working on a pipeline from there and have a lot at stake in how this develops. I wish more people around the world were able to rise up like this though in their own nations when they say enough is enough to corrupt, chrony politicians such as Mr Sheverdnandze, who in the best interest of Georgia should resign. When your one means of direct expression is through the votes, to have that taken away through election corruptions as in Georgia is truly sickening. I believe that Mr. Shevardadze believes that he can survive this as well, because he has survived direct political assassination attempts in the past throughout the early to mid 90s, only time will tell if he is wrong. |
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| DrUg_Tit0 |
| Hard to say what will come out of it. Personally, I'm pretty interested in whether Russia will get involved. Putin has recently said that Russia will get involved in any conflict in former soviet republics if it is a subject of their national interest. My guess is that Putin has secret aspirations to renew the Soviet Union in it's full glory, so it'll be interesting to see whether he thinks he gained enough power and control in the country to start such an endavour, since this is a perfect opportunity for it. Besides, it would be a good opportunity to topple the american influence there. |
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| St_Andrew |
Mass people revolutions is usally good, so i guess this is good too. And i don't hope russia will get involved in this.
don't know too much about it though so really i shouldn't comment too much about this :) |
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| MrSquirrel |
Politcal instability is bad anywhere.
But in Georgia it could be a little more fangerous because of the shared border with Chechnya. Putin could decide that it is a fine time to send a bunch of his 18 year old conscripts down into Georgia to "mop up" some terrorists that he continually accuses Georgia of letting through their border.
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| eLe_vatE |
The political chaos is bad.....
but, the opposition storming the parliamentary building is good, the act has resulted in the (ex) president to call an election in a few weeks time, and this time they shouldn't be rigged because the whole world will be watching.
Good job by the Russian foreign minister who probably played a key role in negotiating the re-elections, (Y). |
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| Yoepus |
| quote: | Originally posted by eLe_vatE
and this time they shouldn't be rigged because the whole world will be watching.
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Ya like that means anything!
And even if it was a fair election, do you really think the democracy will create the best leader in ssuch volitate instability? |
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