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Writing for the the major UK blog Labour List, Alliance for Georgia leader Irkali Alasania (pictured) says he does not "for an instant regret supporting the Rose Revolution. But I do regret the way so many of the revolutionaries, from President Saakashvili down, have let us down by not strengthening democracy and freedom of speech."

Addressing the ongoing debate on changing the electoral code in Georgia he says: "My challenge to President Saakashvili is that he shows himself as a real leader and demonstrates to the world that he understands the true meaning of democracy – a readiness to lose elections as well as win them."

Adding: "President Saakashvili can be the man who ends Georgia’s cycle of revolutionary discontent and broken governments by delivering on the simple promises he has made to us, the Georgian people, and to our international partners.

"A blustering autocrat with a reckless love of political gambling or the man who made good, eventually, on his promises of democracy: the choice is his to make."