Participants in a march for education joined pro-European protests in Tbilisi.

The "Protect Education" march concluded at the Georgian Parliament. Participants, including Georgia's fifth president, Salome Zurabishvili, joined supporters of European integration, who have been protesting for 437 consecutive days.

A protest march under the slogan "Protect Education" moved from the Philharmonic to the Parliament. The marchers opposed planned reforms to the education system and joined the daily protests outside the Georgian Parliament, Interpressnews reports.

Georgia's fifth president, Salome Zurabishvili, joined the march in defense of education. According to her, the "Georgian Dream" is destroying education and returning the country to the past.

"This is not an education reform, this is the destruction of education, this is a return to the old system. It provides neither education nor thinking. "It directly sever[s] our ties with the European, free educational space. The idea of ​​those doing this is to establish greater control over the university, over students, and over faculty," TV Pirveli quotes her as saying.

The protesters occupied half the avenue. They unfurled Georgian and American flags, the publication reports.

The protest outside the parliament building is now in its 437th day, Publika reports.

Protesters in Georgia have been demanding new parliamentary elections and the release of political prisoners since November 28, 2024. Security forces carried out violent dispersals of the protests, using tear gas and water cannons, and detained protesters. Over the course of the protests, more than 1,000 people were subjected to administrative prosecution. The "Caucasian Knot" has prepared a report "The Main Thing About the Persecution of Protest Participants in Georgia".