Georgia protests: President calls government illegitimate as thousands take to streets

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Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili called the government illegitimate on Saturday and said she would not leave office when her term ends next month, as the prime minister said the state would not allow a revolution to take place.

The South Caucasus country was thrown into crisis on Thursday, when Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze's Georgian Dream party said it was halting European Union accession talks for the next four years over what it called "blackmail" of Georgia by the bloc, abruptly reversing a long-standing national goal.

EU membership is overwhelmingly popular in Georgia and the freezing of application talks triggered large protests in the country, which has the aim of EU membership written into its constitution.

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