Former Georgian President and former Ukrainian official, Mikheil Saakashvili, center, marches surrounded by his supporters in central Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017. Supporters of the Movement of New Forces, the political party led by Saakashvili called for Ukraine's President Poroshenko to resign. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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MOSCOW (AP) - Anti-corruption campaigner Mikheil Saakashvili is urging Ukrainians to set up a protest camp in Kiev's main square if parliament fails to adopt a law on presidential impeachment within a week.
He made the call at a Sunday rally that news reports say attracted 2,500 people.
Saakashvili was a key figure in the 2003 Rose Revolution protests in Georgia that ousted the country's president. He then served as president for nearly a decade.
He left Georgia in 2013 and later was appointed governor of Ukraine's Odessa region. But he quit that office in 2016, complaining that his anti-corruption efforts suffered official obstruction. His citizenship was revoked this year while he was out of the country, but he returned in September when supporters broke through a police line at the Polish border.
Supporters of the Movement of New Forces, the political party led by Mikheil Saakashvili, march calling for Ukraine's President Poroshenko to resign in central Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017. The activists carry posters with the image of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the text highlights the promises that the protesters claim he did not fulfill. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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Former Georgian President and former Ukrainian official, Mikheil Saakashvili, center, marches surrounded by his supporters in central Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017. Supporters of the Movement of New Forces, the political party led by Saakashvili called for Ukraine's President Poroshenko to resign. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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Supporters of the Movement of New Forces, the political party led by Mikheil Saakashvili, march to call for Ukraine's President Poroshenko to resign in central Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017. Writing on their posters reads: 'Impeachment'. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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