Hundreds of people gathered at the summer cottage of the Abkhazian de-facto president, demanding the resignation of Raul Khajimba.
Based on the Russian media sources, the armed law-enforcers protect the building. Khajimba had held a meeting with the leader of the opposition, Aslan Bzhania, beforehand. They had agreed that Khajimba would make a retirement announcement soon.
Consequent to the development, the Assistant Russian President, Vladislav Surikov has arrived in Sukhumi today.
Today de-facto government publicized the information regarding the possible appeal of the decision made by the so-called central election commission to appoint repeat elections on March 22. According to the so-called government, this decision to forward the appeal is caused by the unjust decision of the appeal panel.
The so-called repeat presidential elections in Abkhazia are scheduled for March 22. Tamaz Gogia, the chairman of the so-called central election commission, informed journalists that the members of the election commission decided on repeat elections unanimously. On January 10, the so-called Supreme Court ruled that a repeat election would be held.
Protests were staged in Sokhumi on January 9, with activists storming the parliament and demanding resignation of de facto President of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, Raul Khajimba. However, Mr. Khajimba said that he was not going to step down.
The document the drafters of which called upon Raul Khajimba to resign was approved yesterday, with 19 "deputies" having voted for it and four voted against. One "deputy" refrained from voting.
The situation is Sokhumi escalated a few hours ago, with the opposition forces storming the de-facto President's Administration. The puppet government defined this move as a coup.
The opposition maintains that Raul Khajimba failed to receive a majority of electoral votes at the presidential elections. However, the Central Election Committee declared him a winning candidate.
In the first round of the so-called elections, Raul Khajimba received 47.39% of electoral votes, Alkhan Kvitsinia 46.17%, while in the second round, he emerged a winner with 66.55% of votes.
