Georgia’s protesters are trying to storm the Tbilisi Presidential Palace

Georgia’s police are confronted with anti -government protesters who are trying to storm the Presidential Palace in the capital, Tbilisi.

Security forces used water cannons and pepper spray to scatter protesters.

The Caucasus country is in crisis as the ruling Georgian Party Dream demanded a victory in last year’s parliamentary elections that Opposition of Pro -European Union says it was stolenS Since then, the government has stopped conversations about EU accession.

The protest took place the same day as the local elections, which the opposition largely boycotted after a government repression. Earlier, an organizer called on the leaders of the Georgian dream party to be arrested.

Figuring Georgian and the EU flags, tens of thousands of protesters marched in Central Tbilisi on Saturday.

One of the organizers, the opera singer Paata Burhuladze, read a declaration calling for the employees of the Ministry of Interior to obey people’s will and immediately arrest six senior figures from the Georgian Dream Party.

The demonstrators then went to the Presidential Palace and tried to enter the Union, prompting the Riot Police to shoot pepper.

The demonstration follows repression against activists, independent media and political opposition in recent months, with most of the leaders of the pro-western opposition now behind bars.