Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has said she proposes to call new parliamentary elections.
“I propose the following. The first thing is new elections,” she said at a briefing on Monday, adding that new elections should be held after a new election commission is staffed and all voting procedures are in order.
Georgia's Central Election Commission on November 16 published the final protocol of the October 26 parliamentary elections, according to which the ruling Georgian Dream party won with 53.93% of the vote and won 89 seats out of 150 in parliament. Four opposition parties also made it into parliament, but they do not recognize the election results and refuse to give up parliamentary seats. Parliament must convene no later than the tenth day after the publication of the final protocol for the president's convocation. However, if the president refuses to convene parliament, the legislature will convene independently.
The oppositionists consider the results falsified and demand an international investigation and new parliamentary elections.
The Georgian Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation into the opposition's allegations of allegedly falsified election results, but most opposition members are not cooperating with the agency.
Reprinted from https://ria.ru/
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