MADRID 27 Oct. () –
The Georgian Electoral Commission has finally confirmed this Sunday the victory of the conservative-nationalist Georgian Dream of billionaire Bidizna Ivanishvili in this weekend’s parliamentary elections, denounced by the opposition as a flagrant example of electoral fraud.
The results with 99.6 percent of votes counted grant Georgian Dream the support of 54.09 percent of voters. The pro-European opposition, on the other hand, would not reach 40 percent.
The Coalition for Change, which unites the Ahali, Girchi-More Freedom and Droa parties, reportedly obtained around 11.2 percent of votes, followed by the Unity to Save Georgia alliance, led by the United National Movement, the former ruling party, which remains at a provisional 9.8 percent. They are followed by the Strong Georgia coalition with 9.2% and For Georgia led by former Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia with 8.2% of the votes. Participation was 58.9 percent.
COLLISION COURSE
The result of the elections once again pits the prime minister and one of the great standard-bearers of the Georgian Dream, Irakli Kobakhidze, with the president of the country and ally of Brussels, Salome Zourabichvili, who went so far as to declare the opposition the winner of the elections. little to know the initial results.
The prime minister did exactly the same and immediately declared Georgian Dream victory without waiting for the final result.
“We are not going to accept these results,” said the leader of the United National Movement, Tina Bokuchava, who declared that several independent observers are convinced of the opposition’s victory. “The Electoral Commission has limited itself to doing Ivanishvili’s job. We are going to fight like never before to ensure that the European future is back,” he added.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will publish its evaluation of the elections this Sunday, but observers close to Brussels, such as the participants of the organization Your Voice for a European Union, have detected “several problems that are part of a broader plot to alter the outcome of the elections,” according to his spokesperson Londa Toloraia to the Bloomberg agency.
All this happens with the tension between Russia and the West in the background. Georgian Dream promoted legislation on the presence of “foreign agents” described among the pro-EU opposition as a “Kremlin policy.” The US responded with a review of bilateral relations and the country’s president tried to unsuccessfully paralyze its promulgation.
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