Moscow. The Central Electoral Commission of Georgia, by making public this Sunday the remaining 30 percent of the count of the legislative elections of the previous Saturday, ratified the victory of Georgian Dream, the ruling party for twelve years in that former Soviet republic of the South Caucasus.
The highest electoral body reported that, with the manual recount of 100 percent of the ballots, Sueño Georgiano obtained 53.92 percent of the votes, while the four main opposition groups managed to gather 37.81 percent.
The opposition – fragmented but which, despite its differences, had agreed to add votes to win the elections and promote the accession process to the European Union – did not recognize these results, convinced that there was fraud.
The Coalition for Change, the opposition alternative with the most votes with 11.03 percent, renounced receiving the mandates of its deputies, the number one on its list of candidates, Nana Malashkia, announced this Sunday.
Speaking on behalf of his colleagues, Malashkia said: “We all declare that these elections were falsified and the results are therefore illegitimate. “We have no intention of legitimizing the votes that were stolen from the Georgian people, we renounce our mandates as deputies.”
The founder of the second opposition group, Unity – National Movement, which obtained 10.16 percent support, former president Mikhail Saakashvili, urged in a message on social networks from prison to take to the streets to protest against what he called the result. fraudulent:
“Of course, no one should enter Parliament. Now is not the time to try to clarify how we were deceived. It is time to start large protests to show the world that we fight for freedom and that we are a people who cannot stand injustice. “We have little time!” Saakashvili urged.
However, Georgia’s neighbors in the South Caucasus, Armenia and Azerbaijan, have already congratulated the Georgian Prime Minister, Irakli Kobajidze, for the “impressive victory” of Georgian Dream in Saturday’s legislative elections.
Nikol Pashinian, Armenian Prime Minister, congratulated Georgian Dream “with all his heart” for “its impressive victory” and stressed that it is a priority for Armenia to develop ties with Georgia, while Azeri President Ilham Aliyev highlighted that “Georgian citizens “With their vote they supported development, stability and traditional values.”
For her part, in the midst of the first demonstrations of discontent this Sunday night in the capital and other Georgian cities, the country’s president, Salome Zurabishvili, declared that she does not recognize the results and, after agreeing with the opposition leaders, He called on all his followers to attend a large protest rally in Tbilisi on Monday, October 28.
“I do not recognize these results. They cannot be recognized. It would be the same as admitting that Russia prevailed here, that Georgia submits to Russia. We have been witnesses and victims of, so to speak, a ‘Russian special operation’, a new form of hybrid war against our people, our country,” Zurabishvili asserted.
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