@prefix owl: . owl:sameAs , . @prefix foaf: . foaf:page . @prefix dbpprop: . dbpprop:reference . @prefix rdfs: . rdfs:label "Georgian independence referendum, 1991"@en ; dbpprop:abstract "A referendum was held in the Republic of Georgia on March 31, 1991, on the question of Georgia's independence from the Soviet Union. The referendum was sanctioned by the Georgian Supreme Council which was elected in the first multi-party elections held in Soviet Georgia in October 1990, and was dominated by a pro-independence bloc Round Table-Free Georgia led by the Soviet-era dissident Zviad Gamsakhurdia. Having mostly boycotted the all-Union referendum on continued federation and the negotiations on a new union treaty on March 17, Georgia became the fourth Soviet republic, after the three Baltic states, to organize the referendum on the issue of independence. The only question of the referendum asked: \"Do you support the restoration of the independence of Georgia in accordance with the Act of Declaration of Independence of Georgia of May 26, 1918?\" The official results showed nearly 99 per cent in favor with a 90.5 per cent voter turnout. Due to the ongoing ethnic discord, the polls were largely boycotted by the non-Georgian population of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Four days after the final results were announced, the Georgian Supreme Council unanimously passed the declaration of independence on the second anniversary of the Soviet army crackdown on peaceful protests in Tbilisi, April 9, 1991. The referendum coincided with a private visit of the former U.S. President Richard Nixon who visited a few polling stations in Georgia\u2019s capital Tbilisi before his departure to Moscow later that day."@en ; rdfs:comment "A referendum was held in the Republic of Georgia on March 31, 1991, on the question of Georgia's independence from the Soviet Union. The referendum was sanctioned by the Georgian Supreme Council which was elected in the first multi-party elections held in Soviet Georgia in October 1990, and was dominated by a pro-independence bloc Round Table-Free Georgia led by the Soviet-era dissident Zviad Gamsakhurdia."@en . @prefix skos: . skos:subject , , , . @prefix ns5: . skos:subject ns5:Independence_referendums , .