The climate activist is supporting a push to overturn the national election by the country’s pro-Western opposition
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg joined thousands of demonstrators who marched on the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi on Monday as they protested against what they say was a rigged election last month.
The parliamentary elections in the former Soviet republic took place on October 26, with the ruling Georgian Dream party, which advocates pragmatic relations with Russia, winning around 54% of the vote.
Various opposition parties each garnered between 11% and 3%. The opposition has refused to recognize the results of the poll, insisting they were falsified. President Salome Zourabichvili has backed these claims, urging the people to protest and saying Georgia had become a “victim of a Russian special operation.”
In an interview with Reuters, however, she insisted that she was not directly accusing Moscow of meddling, saying only that the “methodology used in support of most probably Russian… types is shown in the election.”
“Of course, you cannot prove anything,” she admitted, while pointing to “clear links” between the ruling party and Russia.
She has always been artificial. Her parents ran/run a PR firm in Sweden. The pic that made her famous, her sitting in front of the school with the cardboard sign was taken by her parents and posted by them.
It’s funny how liberals anointed her a saint of protests.
St. Greta visits the protesters in Georgia, giving her blessing and providing comfort
“Nobody can stop us now that Greta is here,” said one Georgian protester with an American accent, “not even Putin!”