Georgian President Warns Frustration in Pro-EU Protests Is Building

WATCH: Georgia President Salome Zourabichvili speaks in an interview with Bloomberg’s Francine Lacqua.Source: Bloomberg
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Pro-European Union protests risk escalating in Georgia because authorities are blocking off avenues to political dialog, the country’s president said.

Salome Zourabichvili has encouraged protests against what she called a “Russian special operation” seeking to bolster Moscow’s influence and thwart Georgia’s ambition of joining the European Union and NATO. But on Tuesday, the president suffered a blow when the Constitutional Court rejected challenges she and a group of lawmakers had filed against the results of October’s parliamentary elections.