Saakashvili sneezed at Poroshenko at the rally and shouted that he was not an agent of the Kremlin
Several thousand people, mostly pensioners, gathered at a rally organized by former Odessa governor Mikheil Saakashvili today in the center of Kyiv on Grushevsky Street, the site of violent clashes during the Euromaidan era.
The banner “The last winter of this government” was stretched out on the podium. Saakashvili announced the need for early elections to the Verkhovna Rada and presented a new party, the Movement of New Forces.
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“The authorities and the president are blatantly lying, declaring everyone who takes to the streets to be Kremlin agents. Look around – do you see Kremlin agents among us?” he asked the crowd.
"No!" - people shouted.
For about twenty minutes, the former Odessa governor criticized the current Ukrainian government, mired in corruption and financial flows, which directs all the country’s wealth into its own pocket. He called high-ranking officials criminals, hucksters, swindlers and dirty scum, which the public really liked.
“Ukraine has fallen into the vicious circle of a small gang of hucksters who have successfully privatized Ukraine since the beginning of independence. This is the circle Ukraine is stuck in – the circle of criminals and swindlers,” said Mikheil Saakashvili, after which they began to applaud him and shout “Gang, get out!”
The speaker called to break this circle, to say “no” to this gang of hucksters, promised bad news for the gang when he and his comrades come into politics, and told how the Ukrainian authorities hate him, and how much he loves Ukraine.
“I told Poroshenko that these things won’t work with me! I cannot be manipulated! It is impossible to intimidate, it is impossible to wink and hint at something! I have no bosses, including those in the Cabinet of Ministers! My only boss is the people of Ukraine. And the whole government should think so,” he said.
Saakashvili promised to create not just a new political force, but a new political class - servants of the people, a new generation with a “new way of thinking.” After coming to power, he intends to imprison thieves, rid business of the stifling bureaucracy, reduce and simplify taxes, reform education and medicine, recalling what good hospitals he once built in Georgia, and generally restore order in the country - lightning fast, uncompromisingly and if it must be very tough.
“They must stop sleeping sweetly and start trembling with fear!” Saakashvili said.
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