Georgia elected a new parliament on Saturday. According to the official results, the ruling party clearly won. But the President does not recognize this.
“We witnessed something very unusual: it was a total falsification, a total theft of votes, using all the tricks that can be used to falsify elections and, on top of that, the use of modern technologies to close the elections gloss over,” said Zurabishvili. She called the process unprecedented. It was a “Russian special operation, a new type of hybrid warfare” whose victims the population had become.
Georgia’s Prime Minister, Irakli Kobakhidze, has rejected allegations of vote-rigging and violence in Saturday’s election, and spoken of the disputed result as a “landslide” and a crucial victory for this country, which has Russia as a northern neighbour.
“Irregularities happen everywhere,” Kobakhidze told the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg in an exclusive interview.