14:15 30.10.2017

Saakashvili calls for early parliamentary and presidential elections in Ukraine

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Saakashvili calls for early parliamentary and presidential elections in Ukraine

Participants in a protest rally outside the Verkhovna Rada "An all-Ukrainian gathering for big political reform" are planning to expand their demands and include in them the demand to adopt a law on the president's impeachment.

"After they do not accept our conditions, we will have to expand them," New Forces Movement leader Mikheil Saakashvili said in Kyiv on Sunday, October 29.

He said that the Verkhovna Rada and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko must leave if they did not want to hear the demands of the protesters and called for early presidential and parliamentary elections to be held in Ukraine.

"And if the president continues to ignore the demands of the protesters, we must decide that he must leave and re-elect a new president," Saakashvili said.

At the same time, he said that protesters were not preparing to stage a coup. The politician also proposed that presidential elections in Ukraine be held under a new mechanism using primaries.

Saakashvili said that on November 7, when the Verkhovna Rada will meet in plenary session, as many people as possible should come to the square in front of the parliament building in order to remind parliamentarians about their demands - to pass a new law on elections of people's deputies, create an anti-corruption court and cancel parliamentary immunity.

"If they adopt [these bills] on November 7, it will be a good step. But if they do not, we should find other peaceful forms, not just standing outside parliament... We cannot stand here forever. We cannot freeze here forever," he said.

Saakashvili also said that the people who gathered outside the building of the Verkhovna Rada "have a mechanism how to change power."

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