MADRID Dec. 14 () –
The opposition in Georgia began to demonstrate this Saturday morning in front of Parliament, where the country’s new president is scheduled to be elected throughout the day in presidential elections that will be the first through indirect suffrage.
Hundreds of people have already begun to gather in front of the headquarters of the legislative branch to once again reject the composition of Parliament, which emanates from the elections held at the end of October and which, according to the opponents and the current president of the country, Salomé Zurabishvili, recorded various irregularities.
In this way, they seek to demand the calling of new parliamentary elections and assure that the deputies lack sufficient legitimacy to name Zurabishvili’s successor, whose term officially ends next Wednesday.
The opposition formations continue without recognizing the victory of the Georgian Dream government party in the October elections and have warned that it is a party close to Russia that is taking the country away from the path to European integration.
The situation has led the authorities to order the deployment of reinforcement troops in the vicinity of Parliament, the scene of protests against the Government for more than two weeks, with estimates that more than 400 have been detained since the beginning of the demonstrations.
The election of the president is for the first time carried out by an Electoral College, whose electors will be the ones who finally cast their vote. This body will be made up of 300 people, among whom are deputies of Parliament and representatives of local governments, as well as the regions of Ajaria and Abkhazia, the latter region which the Georgian Government continues to consider part of its territory despite of being ‘de facto’ independent.
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