Georgia’s opposition calls for new protests to demand an international investigation into electoral fraud

MADRID 4 Nov. () –

Georgia’s opposition parties have called this Monday for a new day of protests to demand the opening of an international investigation into alleged electoral fraud after the parliamentary elections held on October 26 and which have raised controversy in the country, where several formations have not yet recognized the victory of the government’s Georgian Dream.

Attendees are expected to gather around 5:00 p.m. (local time) to begin a march that will end at Parliament, located in the center of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.

This demonstration will take place nine days after the elections were held, although four parties still do not accept the official result announced by the Electoral Commission. Thus, they maintain that there has been a “massive falsification” of votes and ask for an electoral repetition “under international control.”

The Coalition for Change and the National Unity Movement have participated in the preparations, of which members of the For Georgia party have not been part, which has said it is “focused on obtaining evidence of electoral fraud,” according to information from the portal of news News Georgia.

Several media outlets related to the opposition have assured that this Monday’s actions will be declared “indefinite”, although it is the second protest called in the country after the elections. The first took place on October 28 after the preliminary results were known.

The country’s president herself, Salome Zurabishvili, rejected the results, also questioned by the European Union and the United States. The situation has even led to the arrest of two people for alleged irregularities, as reported by the Ministry of the Interior.

For its part, Georgian Dream has rejected the accusations leveled against it and has reproached Zurabishvili for his attitude, while doing the same with the European Union, which has ‘de facto’ suspended its accession process considering that the authorities of the country had not shown interest in applying the necessary reforms to enter the community bloc.