Salome Zurabishvili said Georgia's parliamentary elections were “illegitimate” and marked by widespread electoral fraud that showed signs of Russian influence.
According to Georgia's president, in some cases ID cards with the same number were used to register “up to 17 to 20 votes in different regions.”
She also said more “classic methods” of election fraud were being carried out, such as “buying votes, putting pressure on public officials in particular, and putting pressure on the families of prisoners who have been promised release.” he claimed.
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“The money was distributed visibly in minibuses at the exit of the polling station,” she said. “It's very difficult to denounce the government, and that's not my role, but the methodology is Russian,” she said in an interview with AFP news agency.
Zurabishvili also pointed out that the ruling party's results in areas with large ethnic minority populations, such as Marnouri town, were clearly unreliable.
– In some towns and villages of ethnic minorities, 97% supported the Georgian Dream – she noted, adding that Georgia “hasn't seen anything like this since the Stalin era”. added.
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Referring to the demonstrations in the country, he said Georgians “know very well that we should not threaten the stability of our country.” – But this does not mean that we should be happy and accept this theft – she added.
“This is not just the theft of our votes… it is the theft of our future in Europe,” the pro-European president said.
Zurabishvili said Georgia could only return to the path to EU membership “if there is a change in policy.”
She called for “a clear intention on the part of the authorities to acknowledge and accept some of the wrongdoing and to immediately commit to or act on lifting restrictions on foreign agents and LGBTQ people.”
“There are some laws that will turn this country into a Russian-type regime,” she said.
Georgia. Chaos after the House of Representatives election
According to official information from the Central Election Commission, the Georgian Dream party won the recently concluded parliamentary elections. The party, which has ruled the country for almost 12 years, won 54.23 percent. vote. In second place was the opposition party Coalition for Change with 10.8%. He finished on the podium with a vote share of 10.1%. The “National Unity Movement” ended.
The opposition parties and the pro-Western president do not accept these results.
A large number of protesters gathered in front of the parliament building in the capital Tbilisi on Monday night. During the demonstration, Giorgi Vashadze, one of Georgia's opposition leaders, spoke and announced that the rebels would demand a new parliamentary election.
He added that they would be implemented under the authority of the “International Administration.”
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