Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said that President Salome Zurabishvili will be criminally prosecuted in two cases, if she calls new parliamentary elections and if she does not leave the residence after the inauguration of the new head of state on December 29.
The Prime Minister said that Zurabishvili held consultations with the opposition and NGO representatives, after which she planned to call new elections, but was persuaded not to make such an announcement. Zurabishvili, for her part, plans to hold an emergency briefing on Sunday night.
"Salome Zurabishvili yesterday gathered the opposition spectrum and NGOs with the intention that she was supposed to call parliamentary elections, but someone smart advised her not to do so.... I am sure that she has enough intelligence not to violate the norms of the Criminal Code..., if we imagine that she is entrenched in the residence of the President, then in this case it is also a crime stipulated by the Criminal Code. I repeat that maybe no one will want to send a 72-year-old woman to prison, but by such an action she will doom all the people who will be with her in the presidential residence," Kobakhidze said at the briefing.
According to him, parliamentary elections in Georgia can be scheduled in the following cases: if the CEC or the Constitutional Court annuls the results of the past elections, when the four-year term of office of MPs expires, and snap elections when the parliament does not express confidence in the government.
"We will see where she will continue to live, behind bars or free," the prime minister added.
Reprinted from ria.ru
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