Georgian party pledges devastating blow to "murderous regime" in local poll.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of report by Georgian TV station Rustavi-2 on 31 August

[Presenter] The Labour Party will not boycott the local self-government elections. Shalva Natelashvili is confident that his party stands the highest chances of winning the 5 October elections. Boycott only makes sense if a majority of opposition parties are involved in it, Labour Party leader Shalva Natelashvili said. He said that full responsibility for the events after the elections rests with George Bush, Sen John McCain and …