Based on official outcomes, the pro-Russian Georgian Dream celebration (KO, populist conservative), in energy since 2012 and led by the oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili, has received the October 26 parliamentary elections with virtually 54% of the vote (89 of 150 seats). Nonetheless, the pro-European opposition, together with a coalition of a number of events, have refused to recognise the consequence and take their seats within the new parliament. They complain of huge irregularities, and this declare is supported by a number of impartial observers, from the OSCE or Georgian civil society, a few of whom have known as for the consequence to be annulled. The federal government has denied the accusations.
For her half, President Salome Zurabishvili, who had labored to unify the opposition with a view to transfer nearer to the European Union and away from Moscow, denounced “a particular operation by Russia, a brand new kind of hybrid struggle” to “rig” and “steal” the vote from the Georgian individuals, who Zurabishvili known as on to exhibit.
A number of European leaders additionally denounced irregularities, with the notable exception of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (Fidesz, far proper), who rushed to Tbilisi to congratulate Ivanishvili and his Georgian counterpart Irakli Kobakhidze.
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