The Georgian people who have taken to the streets are demanding new elections and a return to the European path, Georgia's fifth president, Salome Zurabishvili, said in an interview with France 24.

The most important demand is the return to the European path,” Zourabichvili noted. “That’s what people on the streets have been demanding every day for practically 60 days now. Because what started this massive protest was not just the stealing of the elections. It was also the fact that the prime minister and the parliament – without a mandate from the population – went against the will of the population and said that we will stop our path towards Europe.”

Salome Zurabishvili noted that the Georgian Dream is trying to curry favor with Donald Trump by using his words.

“I think Trump is also a realist,” she says. “The main message that I heard at his inauguration was that he’s talking about a strong America. Well, how is America strong if a small country of 3.7 million people can suddenly turn away from the West, abandon the strategic partnership with the United States, and turn to China and Russia? And what does strong America do if the Black Sea is closed to the American fleet? So there is a whole strategic, real world that Trump has to confront, beyond sympathies for some ideologies.”