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'Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili said on Oct. 27 that she will not
recognize the results of the country's recent parliamentary elections and
called for citizens to join her in mass demonstrations.
The ruling pro-Russian Georgian Dream party won a majority in the Oct. 26 vote,
according to Georgia's electoral commission. Pro-EU parties have disputed the
result, and European monitors also said the elections were characterized by
intimidation and irregularities.
"I do not recognize these elections," President Zourabichvili said in a press
conference on Oct. 27, as reported by the
Echo of the Caucasus.
"These elections cannot be recognized. This is the same as recognizing
Georgia's subordination to Russia. ... No one can take away Georgia's European
future."
Zourabichvili called the result a "total falsification" and described the
election as a "Russian special operation." She urged citizens to join her at
Tbilisi's Freedom Square on Rustaveli Avenue to protest the falsified election.
"We must stand together and declare that we do not recognize these elections,
we do not tolerate Russia and its invasion of Georgia in this form," she said.
"We will stand together. ... I would like to invite you all to Rustaveli
tomorrow, at 7 p.m., so that we can say together, declare to the whole world
that we do not recognize these elections, we are defending constitutional
rights."
The president's words echo those of former Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia, an
opposition leader, who said that the results "do not reflect the will of the
Georgian people" and called for "reasonable forms of protest" to "defend the
European future" of the country.'
Via Susan ****
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